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'be Oxpreoo. TO 00R1.115P01 DIRTO. Meerirmuishtimarose Him 'Lars Iyakepaper ma is it Ur Oft% 116 la Tve Oink sa die OF ambling.. RION WATS", AT LONDON DILIDOZ. & Dat—iferdas, 416 On ..Altauses. flu Twourr-41araia AN. N 0...— Aftessaa. bk. Hilh LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 26. WE invite the attention of our readers to a speeeh delivered by Count Wail:welt, in the meeting of Conference held on the Bth met., of which a report, will be found in another column. Count WALIWSII appears, in his character of President, to have in vited the members of Conference to extend their views beyond the special question which they were deputed by their respective Governments to diocese and settle. The topics he wished them to embrace in their deliberating are of a twofold character. He directed their attention to the abnormal oonditioo of the Government of Greece, and of at least two Govern ments—the Papal and the Neapolitan—in the Italian Peninsula : these are special question of temporary Miens , . He further proposed " that the Courses should crown its labours by a declaration which would constitute a real progress in international jurisprndence,and would be gratefully accepted by the ent ire world." " The Congress of Westphalia," he went oo to say, " had declared for liberty of moseleocie I the Cowes. of Vienna, for the abolition of the slave trade and the free navigation of rivers. It would be worthy of the Congress of Paris to put an end to loos standing diaerosion■ by laying down the bens of a uniform maritime code in time of war." This is a problem which interests all nations, and its solution would be of permanent benefit. With regard to the whole three questions, it is only necessary to remark at present that they were ultra ',lra of the assembled Plenipotentiaries. Had they consented to enter into a discussion of them they would have been liable to be taken by surprise. It may be added, that the competence of the Ministers present to devise a maritime code for times of war may fairly be questioned. On the whole, we are disposed to concur io the principles enunciated under this head by Count WALEWBII ; but we MI extremely sceptical 2/ to the competency of WA- Liwoms or °atone to legislate on such an impor tant subject. With regard to the views indicated by the President of the Conferences remedies the affairs of Naples sod the Papacy, and the occupation of Rome by French and of the Legation by Austrian troops, we can only say that they infirm as in the opinion we expressed when it was first reported that the Italian question had been mooted in the Conferences. We are fully alive to the threatening aspect of Italian affairs; but we are convinced that for the English Government to engage to interfere in them, in concert with any oontinental Power except Sardinia, would be to expose itself to imminent danger of being compromised—of being involved in measures which could not possibly benefit Italy, and would probably entail embarrassment, if not dishonour, upon itself. Of this subject hereafter. Some things haws tran spired of late which show that it may be neocesay to watch closely the policy pursued by the French Oustrnment, not oily with regard to Italy bat to Spain. But our immediate object is to pro- test, in the most measured language, but at the same time most emphatically, against the extra ordinary menaces held out by Count WAteweri to Belgium. Count WALEWBKI attempted to give to this part of his speech the appearance of a topic which he regarded u concerning rather Franco aloes than Europe generally, and to which he only alluded casually. Neverthelim, it is difficult to read his speech without coming to the conclusion that this parenthetical passage—like the postscript of a lady's letter—contains what the Minister of NAPOLEON 111. was most anxious to impress upon the minds of those he addressed. Count WALLWBKI complained that " in Belgium, publications were printed every day which con tained the moot hostile and insulting attacks upon Fr ince and her Government." He represented these publications as being directed sgainst the in ternal tranquillity of France, and as "enjoying im punity under the shelter of Belem Legislation." He protested that the French Government "had every reason to be satisfied with the Cabinet of Brussels, which had done its best to mitigate a state of things which it was not in its power to change, because the laws of Belgium did not empower it to repress the excesses of the press, nor to take the initiative in a reform which had become absolutely indispensable." He hinted at the possibility that "the Belgian Government, relying upon the great majority of the country, might find itself in a position to put an end to a state of things which eannot fail to prodeos difficulties and even clingers, which it is for the interest of Belgium to avoid." Count WALIWIKI took care that there should be no mistake as to the nature of the "dangers" to which he alluded ; for he said, " Any remonstrances on the pert of a stronger power mimed so much resemble a threat that we na turally end by every possible means to avoid having recourse to them." This is plain speaking. In Belgium, se is Rag land, delicts of the press can only be paniahed ac cording to law. The Government has not the power, as in From*, to declare in every special ease what is a della, and to punish it without recourse to the Courts of Justice. This has, for the French Government, the disagreeable code_ quince that its actions are freely canvassed and criticised by the Belgian press, and that it east only attempt to suppress such inconvenient discussion by appealing to the Belgian cautteof law, of whose scrutiny itentertaine well-grounded fears. The French Govesn went, therefore, modestly proposes that the easstitu tioaal liberties of the Belgians shall be 'appraised eoldy to ►nit its convenience. It affects to believe that the Belgian Government is willing to gratify it in this matter, bat is afraid to do so ; and it therefore exhorts the Cabinet of Brussels to put down the liberty of the press by a coup d'etat ("relying upon the great majority of the people," as LOUIS NAPO :LEON professes to have done on the 2nd of December), and stimulates the Cabinet of Brussels to act thus by urea's of dangers which are anything but obscurely or equivocally indicated. Each language on the part of a French Minister is simply tentative. What he says of Belgium and Its press now he may say of England and its press Imam after. The menace held out to the Belgian Govern , mew, sad the levitation given to it to sure s& span the constitutional liberties of the Belgian people, ere so pees violation, of the rights of an in dependent people as were the MENTCHOZOTT pea seals to the SULTAN which gave occasion to the late war. The people of Franc* may, if they shoats, submit to have their press gagged : that is a natter to be settled by them and their Government, to which no foreigners have any title to interfere. But the peoples of Belgium and England We determined to maintain the liberty of the praise sad that is $ nutter which mut be left to be settled by each of them with its own Goverment reopeetivelyorithowt foreign Inteeferense. We seedily admit that, ass free pees is a peat power, so is it, like all groat powers, liable to obese; but jades and expediently main that such abase should be repressed by regular proems of taw, publicly sant. Watered, not by the übitrary sad clandeetiao =W eiss of irreepealible power. isk Cie Court. The Duchess of Cambridge sad the Princess Mary Tidied rho goon yesterday at Beeklagban Palace. The Primo Consort rode ea horseback la the forme" atteaded by Colossi P. IL &moor. The Winn of Weise wad Primo Alfred hooesred the Cisllery of the New Society of Paiatan la Water Colours, is Pall-mall, with a whit. . Priam Artbar, sad the Princesses Helena and Louisa, took a drive is an open carriage end four. 1 1 Her Majority and Prince Albert, aesenpanied by the Prisons Allem sad the Princes, Helena, teak a drive is the afieneeem in ea open landau and four. Lord Alfred Paget and Calomel P. H. Seymour attended oa bornbatk. - . _ lite QM. lad a Maser party in the 'maims. The oreapany iaeladed the DuMoe et HISS. Hto Doke of New castle, the Bul and Quietus of Clarendon, Lady Fanny Howard, Lord Jana Murray, General Vivian, end Ad miral air B. Lyme. Her ILlesty's private baud wee in attendant* in the Palms after diaper, sad played the following @thank& Oreeme.t a L e Elea.. a Fa11iar0"...... TTi Paislist achaebrar. The se. Mary Seymour mad the Hai. Emily Catheett have soesseded the lin. Misses Studs, sad Herr u the Maids et Hum is Waiting to her Mejesty. The Dottier of Heat visited the Dauber of Gleattestee se Wednesday, at Cliesenttr HOW. A depatatiou Cron the Highways sad Peblic Works Ces sit•ee of the Vestry of St. Parma had an laterview with the Right Hos. Sir Besjesia Hall yesterday, at the *Hoe of Yobbo Works, Whitehall. The deputation cousistsd of Messrs. Beard, Lai/ford, Viapos, and Winter; sad Mr. Batt, chief surveyor to the vestry. Despatches frees the Govsroor of Ceylon' were resolved yr surds, at the Colouisl.ofies. The Hamburg eorreepoadent of the Brussels /al pine/game Writ* I: " TM sews w►leh we have received from Stockhol a leaves me doubt as to the approach's, marriage of Prince Oscar, semrsd soe of the Leg, with the Prisons Mary of Cambridge. The Prime will leave iliscst imme diately, with the Qum Mother, for Pais. From theme he witi proceed to Losdoo, to make a somewhst prtlonsed slay, sod will complete the arrsogemsets for the projected macs. The fortune of thePrIBOON of Cambridge ameetutiog only to about 3,000 i. a per, it le believed at Stockholm that at the meat samtiag of the (oar eliambere of the Diet the Kteig will sok f r am 'metal grant for his nos, i• order to smahle Oast Primes to worthily instals his reek and that of his wart. This prrj ct already endue much publie tentios." Her Majesty, his Royal Higher. Prioos Albert, and the royal family, will leave Backlash.. Pale. 00 the 10th of May, to spend between two sad three weeks to the Isle of Wig., after which the court will return to Backlashes' Pals., to keep km Mejesty's birthday there in the 29th, and also to he ia town at the celebration of pnoe. Tile Court will afterwards remain at Backlash'. Palace mull the first week I. Jane, when her M.jesty will go to Windsor, to dispense her hoopitality to the aanurrous and distiagaished cusp =ay who will roc...invitations to the Coatis diaries the Ascii rice week. The marriage of the Lady Elinor Fitzgibbon with Mr. Frauds Cateadiet. eecood OM of General the Hoe. Hoary Caveadith, tcok place ye/talky, at Bt. Jaweee Chetah, Pieeettilly. The doable marriage which took place yesterday 'scroll., et St. George's, Hastmer-square, of the Lady Bliaab.th Hay, tt Sir Frederick Arthur, But., and of her sister, the Lady Aegusta Hay, to the Hon. Joke Twialston Filene's, oldest too of the Lord B.y and &is, attracted • lamer assemblage of spectator to the church that on lay previoas occasion sines the wedding of Priam Edward of ease-Weimar with the daughter of the Duke of Richmond. The yowl, brides were elenilerly attired is deism of rich Brussels late OM white grow de Naples, wreaths of orange blown . and veils of the finest tester. giving additional lightness and beauty to the costume. A charming efftc: was produced in this wedding (say. the Post) by the unusual amber of bridsemaida—.is to each bride—thole of the Lady inn ards wearing white tarlatan with pink trimmings, and them of the Lady Augusta similar dresses trimmed with Mae. la accordance with a custom whit& seems likely to prevail, all these ladies discarded bassets and wore wreaths of Bowers la pink or blue, with mils elegantly arranged in the Stavish style. Lady Adelaide de Trafford and Mr. John Ran eolpties de Trafford have left the Clarendon (or Creston Hall, our Charley, Lace oh re. Sir John and Lady Crowe have arrived at the Clarinda' frame Calke Abbey, sear Derby. We regret to learn that Lieut.-General Sir Fre derick Ashworth has been aturely indisi mod dazing the lest few dap, at his reeidenee in 81. Grarge'l-plice. Mr. sad Mr& Crawshay Bailey have arrived at New-street, Spring•garden', km their kat, Alterman, Wake. Mr. and Mr,. Flefcher Norton have arrived at their Mass in t[sarBQ4d arrest br the Banos, from their coaster seat, Etta Manor, Notts. We (Derby Reporter) understand that Mr. lity. worth, M.P., is osaapaay with his soa-la-law, is at pre ant es a visit is Ataertea. He will, wo believe, shortly mune his parliarmatary dative. The Right Hoe. E. Strutt, M.P., writes to the Nottingham Review, in *minion of the intennoe whieb bad beta Made, that bemuse be voted for the Ant of Lord John Russolra sdustionel rseslat'ons, is app oved of t►e remainder. "Hai be p meetrel it moviog them," pays Mr. Strait, "my vow would boys been given mama most of ti eat, and I should bay. been mat decidedly opposed to the eighth revolution, by w►ich it was proposed, in certain cum to Islam a emptiliory school rate." 1 There is a ramoor at Paris that Lord Cowley Will be appointed British Minister at St. Patanbarg, sad that ha w,ll be antemsdied in the Froth sopital by Earl St's hope. A banquet was given at the Royal Naval College, Poitanaath Dockyard, last "treater, to the °Seen of the imperial Freseb Navy who attended the review in hie portal blaJoYea eon s++° D. Obeyle, eolama•lbd by cap- him Longueville, whose dicers are Lieuteaants Distant end Tirerd, Basin's* Caney end A. Bernell°. The depth ties oa board consists of the f,ll,wiog ofllcers :—ltear Admiral ISTita de le dray ate; Captains Belvise, Didelet, Poets's., Blair, Ls Jena., and Chaperon; Litnetenssts B. lianselia, Zidf, Daberquois Boone, To.- boat', de Joey:mires, de Beaulieu, Finessed, and Lafoot ; Berge La Roes de Villiers, de Barbarity, Flenriais, and Baguet, Countiessite de la Marine. The !magnet wee given by the admiral' and enneins of the Beet at Spithead. The College wan suitably "appointed" fn the ocossion, and the dinarr wee furnished from the Cr.rwn and &optic, Glen' wleh. The Royal London Yacht Club will eowesesee its Stal3ll as Saluda', May 3, with the aiming trip. - - - - Pesos was celebrated with mach pomp in the noitrioi tapitel. on Sunday. All the prisms of the ebsrch assembled is Salmi, the deil and military estborides assistinz is the solemnity, and as immense creed pressing seder all the mhos of the vast cathedra of St. Ethane. Baron de Manteuffel was received, on alighting at Berlin to his return how P.ris, by his lenity, Its col leagues, and the chief taattisearles of We denotement. The Pieria's Minister wont immediately to the Mar, sad afterwards made his appearsass for a duet dam In the Chamber of Delegates, where he was resolved with cheers. The Chamber of Peen ere about to offer him a banquet. The Queen of hassle has Left Berlin for Dresden. Preparations w being made at Berlin for the recap** el the a, wager Impress St Besali. A letter from Athens of the 17th fort. ammo. that Kies Othe had given • grind Imagoes ea the ttstodea if the comeliest,. of rase, at which aU lb. bodes erpretea 'atty.,' aid the womanlike of the Frusta SUOMI, 1146,-Ad aka Bout Wakeman, wers protest. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1856. COUNT WALEWSKTS SPEECH IN THE CONGRESS. Ws us ambled to lay before am readers an authentic report of Count Warmth (the Pint Preach Plenipotentiary) important week pro boomed in the Cowles oa April 8. After exile formal boning., Count WALE:writ roes and said : He thought it was desirable that, before they sepantted, the plenipoten tiaries should exchange their ideas upon various sub jects which called for solution, and which it might be useful to take into consideration, with a view to prevent future complications. Although they had assembled for the special purpose of arranging the Eastern question, the Congress might, in his opinion, have to reproach itself if it were not to take advan tage of the circumstanes which had brought together so many represented' s" of the principal powers of Europe, to elucidate oertain questions, lay down cer tain principles, and give utterance to certain senti ments-411 with the sole object of assuring the tran quillity of the world by dispelling, while yet they were not too threatening, the clouds which might already be seen lowering in the political horizon. It could not, he said, be denied, that Greece was in an abnormal situation. The anarchy to which that country bad been abandoned had compelled France and England to send troops to the Films, and that at a time when their armies had no lack of employment elsewhere. The Con gress knew what was the state of Greece at that moment. Moreover, Congress could not be ignorant that the condition of that country was far from satisfactory at the present time. It would not therefore be a preeseding without its utility if the powers represented in the Congress were to ma nifest a desire to see the three protecting courts take into their mature consideration the deplorable situa tion of the kingdom which they had created, and de vise means to apply a remedy. Count Walewaki did not doubt that Lord Clarendon would concur with him in declaring that the two governments were most anxiously looking forward to the moment when they might safely put an end to their occupation of Greece ; but this they felt they could sot do, so long as serious modifications were not made is the present state of things in Greece. The French plenipotentiary afterwards reminded the Congress that the Pontifical States were also in an abnormal situation. The necessity of not leaving those states a prey to anarchy had determined France as well as Austria to respond to the request of the Holy See in occupying Rome with her troops while Austria occupied the Legations. France had a double motive in deferring without hesitation to the desires of the Holy See—let, as a catholic; and 2nd, uan European power. As the "eldest child of the church," a title of which the Emperor was most proud, his Majesty had made it a duty to give his aid to the Sovereign Pontiff. Bat, further, the tran quillity of the Roman States, upon which depended the tranquillity of all Italy, was much too closely connected with the maintenance of order in Europe for France not to have an interest of the highest kind to assist, by all the means in her power, in the preservation of order in the Pope's dominions. He fully saw how much there was that wu aboormil in the situation of a power which had need of the sup port of foreign troops is order to maintain its autho rity. He did not hesitate to declare, and he hoped that Count Buol would say as much on the part of Austria, that France wu not only ready to withdraw her troops from Rome, but she desired with all her heart that the time when she might do so without compromising the interests of the Pontifical govern ment, in which the Emperor took so lively an inte rest, might not be tadeGuitely paetpoue4l. It was most desirable, in the interest of the equilibrium of Europe, that the French forces should be enabled safely to evacuate the Roman States. He did not doubt that the frank expression of these sentiments on the part of France and Austria would do good, and produce a favourable impression. Continuing in the same order of ides. he felt prompted to inquire whether it was not to be wi-hed that certain governments in the Italian Peninsula should by acts of well considered clemency conciliate such of their subjects as were not perverted though they had gone astray, and should thus put an end to asyslem which operated directly contrary to its ob ject, a system which instead of restraining the enemies of order had for its effect to weaken the governments that acted upon it, and to augment the number of the partisans of demagogy ? In his opinion it would be to render a signal service to the government of the Two Sicilia% as well as to the cause of order in the Peninsula to enlighten that government on the subject of the wrong courts which it was pursuing. He thought that a warning con ceived in this spirit and coming from the Congress would be well received by the Neapolitan govern ment, which could not possibly entertain any suspicion of the motives of advice wining from such a quarter. Count Walewski next called the attention of the Congress to a subject which, although relating more immediately to France, was nevertheless one of real interest to all European powers. It was well known that in Belgium publications were printed every day which oontained the most hostile and insulting attacks upon France and her government, and that in these publications revolt and essusination were openly advocated. Very recently some Belgian j4urnsla pronounced an sulogium on the "Marianne," a secret society whose tendencies and objeots were notorious. All these publications were to many implements of war directed against the internal tranquillity of France by the enemies of social order, who, strong in the impunity which they enjoyed under the shelter of Belgian legislation, cherish the hope of sucoeeding in their guilty projects. lie protested that the sincere desire of the Em peror was to maintain the beet relations with Belgium, and he hastened to add that his Majesty's government had every reason to be satisfied with the cabinet of Brussels, which had done its best to mitigate a state of things which it was not in its power to change, because the laws of Bel• glum did not empower it to repress the excesses of the press nor to take the initiative of a reform which had become absolutely indispensable. We should regret (the French plenipotentiary continued) to be placed under the obligation of ourselves making Belgium to understand that it is imperatively maces stry to modify a legislation which is not compatible with the fulfilment by her government of the first of international duties—namely, that of not tolerating intrigues having for their avowed object to disturb the tranquillity of neighbouring states. Any remon strances on the part of a stronger power would so much resemble a threat that we naturally endeavour. by every possible means, to avoid having recourse to them. If the representatives of the great powers, appreciating this necessity from the same point of view es ourselves, should think fit to express their opioioe on the subject, it is probable that the Belgian government, relying upon the great majority of the country, would find itself in a position to put an end to a state of things which cannot fail, sooner or later, to produce difficulties and even dangers which it is i for the interest of Belgium to avert. In conclusion, the Count proposed that the Congress should crown its labours by a declaration which would mutants a real progress in international juispentinsso, and would be gratefully auspted by the entire The emi gre 's of Westpha li a bad aniseed for berty of conscience ; the Congress of Vienna for abolition of the slave trade and the free navigatior of rivers. It would be worthy of the Congress of Paris to put an end to long standing dissensions by laying down the bases of an uniform maritime oode in time of war. The four following principles would oompletely attain this object :- 1. The abolition of La Course. 2. That neutral merchandise covers enemy's merchandise, except contraband .of war. 3. That neutral merchandise, exoept contraband of war, cannot be seized even under an enemy's flag. 4. That a blockade is only obligatory so far u it is real. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. TER PROTOCOLS. 'Phi Paris torrespieldent elf Le Nord observes : "Bash the foreigslegatiods has sent to its govern ment a espy of twenty-three protosis of the twenty three sittings of the Congress. Time twenty-three pro tocols form about 1,000 pages in quarto! Toone then that the publication will be of great length, and will occupy the illonikur for some time. The nature of these protocols will be found move interesting than the public expect, and will reveal incidents little dreamed of; they will have an influence upon Euro pean polities of a very important character." We shall not have to wait very long for these docu ments, for the ratifications of both the Emperor of Russia and the Sultan have, we believe, arrived in Paris. To-morrow or Sunday the ilowiteur may bs expected to publish the treaty, with which the Daily New has already made English readers familiar, and then the publicatioa of the protocols will commence. DESPATCH FROM GENERAL LUDERS. The Jot rnal d* Se. Petersbourg, of April 17, pub lishes a despatch from General Ludes, dated April 14 giving an account of his interview, the previous day, with the Commanders-in-Chief of the" foreign " armies. After the review of the Russian troops, the Russian General invited Marshal Pelissier, Generals ' Codrington and Marmon, and several superior and subaltern Wipers, to a dinner in a tent on the Mac kenzie heights. The General continues : Attar a tout propowd by as is the health of the Imps roe of the Preach, Quin Viands, end the King of Seidl- DIA, Marshal Nihau proposed a meet to the Itealth‘of his Maisel the Bawer and tile 111/1111/118 of his Imperial Ma jest,. Ia • loag spouts he szpreseed his veaeratioa for Ms Majesty. and his Imely sympathies fee ear troops. He begged me especially to snare H. M. the &sparer that all which he had spoken ammo from the bonsai of his heart. Throughout the day there were a greet amber of the sonars and officers of the Allies is oar map. Altogether this fete has bees very walla es both sides. RUSSIAN TRADE. The Northern Bee of St. Petersburg, quoted by the Journal de St. Peterabourg of April 17, has the following: The telegraph Lofoten us that the conclusion of peace wsa followed in Load= by a rapid fall is the yin of Busies commodities, partly provoked by the notion that Bunia ban accumulated quantities of merchandise of all sorts dot ing the war, and %bat it mist now dispws of them at a low figure. In calculating thus, the English merchants forget that throughout the war Raritan *span have continued by way of lane, sad that thus we shall not be c 's pelled to sell the old stoeu cheaply. The 'appo sition of a great quantity of Russian merchan dise prepared In anticipation is equally anoints,. Russia cannot at this moment espwt say otter grain than that already foand la our seaports, or in their neighbourhood, since there would not be time to briog anything from the interaar for the navigation of this year. The cora in store in the southern ports will have probably been already pur chased on the account of French merchants. It is only then between the autumn and next spring that Great Britain can hope to fad rota cheaper in Russia than in America. At our Bourse the price of imposts is firmly assintained, while that of import merchandise is senaibly as the dolts*. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (now ova owx PARIS, TRUP.IDAT iVIIIIXO• An immense sensation was occasioned in Paris to day by the appearance of the treaty of peace in the Daily News. Strict orders were given that none of the Paris papers should publish it. lam informed that orders against the publication have been sent by telegraph to all the departments. The Pays doubts not that all the governments will repudiate their participation in the issue. This, I think, would be scarcely worth their while, for the ratifications will, I believe, be exchanged the day after to-morrow. The Patric state, that the courier bearing the ratification of the treaty of peace by the Sultan most have arrived in Paris this day. Prince de Lich tenstein, who is expected in a day or two from St. Petersburg, will, it is not doubted, bring with him full powers, accrediting Count Orloff all an ambassador extraordinary, charged to notify to the court of the Tuileries the secession of Alexander IL The official adhesion of the Emperor of Austria to the treaty of Paris had not been despatched from Vienna on the 20th, but it is probable that it must be on its road by this time. The Pays ea ye it is evident that the Official Milan Gazette, in announcing that the Pops was coming to France, hes fallen into a mistake, and that the de parture from Rome, of which the Milan journal speak% is that of the Cardinal a w►o is to repre sent his Holiness at the baptism of the Imperial Prince. At the BOUM the Rents opened with a degree of firmness, which was not maintained. The lut quotations were 74fr. 100. for cash, and 74fe. 33e. for account, the fall being 16e. and bo. Bank of France rose 60fr., and Credit Mobilise 35'r. Rail ways were on the whole better, several lines rose from Mr. to 10fe. There was a great deal of talk at the Bourse of the general meeting of the Credit Mobilise held yesterday. The report, which is very highly spoken of, was read to the shareholders by M. Isaac Pereira ; he en tend into long debits on the successive develop. manta which the society had already experienced, and coneeroieg the great undertakings which had been formed under its patronage. The accounts wen approved of unanimously. The dividend was fixed at 178 fr. 700 , which, with the 26fr. interest already paid on the Ist of January last, gives au annual return of 203 fr. 700. It has been known for um. tiees that the dividend would be knit), lint owing to contradictory reports some holders of the stock had sold out; to-day the purchases were very numerous. Pietri, the Prefect of Police, has been placed, as it appears from a circular just issued by him, in a very delicate position, owing to an overwhelming amount of applications from his subordinates to knew how far they would be justified in offering their assistance to the committees " spontaneone'y" forming in every quarter of Paris and the depart ment of the Seine for the purpose of collecting sub scriptions not exceeding 25e. to buy an offering for the Empress and the Imperial Prince. M. Pietri very adroitly calms the susceptibility of the more *crapulous among his employee. He reminds them that, though they are policemen, they are not the less Frenchmen, and lays it down that they may with a very safe conscience collect subscriptions pro vided that they abash: from any et( p which may look like pressure, and that they leave the most ab solute liberty to every individual. A postscript to the circular notion as a proof of the popular charac ter of the subscription the really wonderful circum stance that the population appear to have everywhere speed upon precisely the same sum as the maximum, namely five sous. The Novvelliate of Marseilles announces that the grand banquet whioh is to be given by that city to Marshal Pelimier on his arrival will take place in the Chateau Baldly. At the same time the ft , e of the soldiers who accompany the marshal will be held he the hippodrome of the Charm dee Flours. OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. THE NORTH SIDE THROWN OPEN TO THE ALLIES. (PROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.) CAMP, SEBASTOPOL, Aram 12. On the morning of the 9th, the following general order was issued to the troops: The English Army is no bow restric•sd from pasting the Tchtraays ; all officers are to he present is camp at night, and all non-commissioned officers and men to be pre sent at the marl roll-calls, mottos they srs in possession of written paws from their own commanding officer,. This, as may be supposed, was most welcome ia telligence, and long before the afternoon, crowds of well mounted staff officers, and several regimental officers, on their baggage ponies, were wending their way up the Mackenzie Heights. At General Luders' head-quarters, which consist only of a small hut, situated some distance to the north of the Spur Bat tery,a band, upwards of 200 strong, was playing to a large concourse of Russian officers and soldiers. Gen. Luders' married daughter was also present. This band was evidently formed out of the different regi ments belonging to tke nearest division, and far surpassed the French and Sardinian, as well as our own English bands, even when they are brigaded together. The Russian soldiers that were strolling about in their camps, looked particularly healthy and well clothed, but the camps themselves, even to the inside of their mud huts, were disgustingly filthy— far exceeding anything that the English soldier expected, even atter taking into consideration all that he witnessed in the Medan, Karabeluais, and Sebas topol. If one may offer an opinion upon such mat ters I should think that there might be a division guarding the summit of the Mackenzie Farm road, two divisions about the Severusia or North Fort, which by the bye it is forbidden to enter, although the ditch round it is narrow, and there might perhaps be the strength of another division about Inkermann. As a proof that it was never intended to fortify strongly thenorth side,l may mention that there is only one battalion of engineers still remaining, the officers of which, previous to their departure next Tuesday, dine with our engineers in their camp at 4 o'clock this day. Most of the Russian soldiers appear to be militia, and although they have lately been buying up every thing in Kadikoi and Kamtesch, thereby causing the storekeepers to raise the price of their goods 10 per cent. over what they re duced them to on the intelligence of peace, they still appear to have plenty of money, for they are most anxious to buy either English mares or English ponies, and likewise officers' chargers. Gene ral La Marmon gives it out, I believe, as his opinion, that the northern heights might have been taken with a couple of our divisions, and now that these far-famed heights, with their batteries,are open to view, many hold the same belief, based upon two reasons : first, because the Ruuian army is not numerous, is young, and prin cipally composed of militia; and, secondly, because their batteries are some of them not only unarmed, but others have unserviceable guns mounted, inch as trunnion. broken, and so forth; still the faot should not be lost sight of, that a gun minus a trun nion, if properly fixed, could be made most avail able for defending or sweeping a road, and that the unarmed batteries could be easily armed and rendered formidable by bringing up field artillery, thereby giving the Routines the power, with a small quantity of field gone, of defending any position that might have been attacked. Several officers went yesterday to &kohl- Semi, others to the North Forts, by way of Traktir-bridge, returning by the Rock Chapel opposite Inkermann. A large party proceed on Monday down the coast to Yaks, a steamer being engaged for the purpose at U. a head. Sir William Eyre has gone to Simpheropol on four days' leave, with his aitherle-camp, Lieutenant St. Clair, 21st Regiment, who speaks Russian fluently. The Third Division is in the meantime commanded by Brigadier-General Trollope. Last night the broken bridge over the Tchornaya at the head of the harbour was pot into a complete state of repair, under the superintendence of Lieut. Gordon, R.E. This will enable en immense round to be saved to those who wish to visit the north side of the harbour or the Rock Chapel. This bridge was broken up after Inkermann, but the wooden piles have always remained. A review of the whole army is talked of previous to the departure of the Sardinians, 6,000 of whom are under orders to embark the moment the admiral can provide sufficient transport by ordering up all the large steamers from Constantinople that are available. The 700 Army Work. Corps which were to have embarked yesterday fur England in the Cleopatra, with the ten sisters of charity and Mrs. Bridgman, do so to-day. All the mails are to hand, the one due on Thurs day having come well up to its time. All tho dif ferent grave yards are being put in order, and trenches and walls placid round. Unfortunately, lime is scarce, and fresh water gives some trouble to draw. Round Cathcart's Hill a stone wall is being placed, but the prettiest burial-ground is one belcng ling to the 2nd Brigade Light Division, on the Wo ronz ff road, near the piquet-house. Here the officers of the 19 b, 77th, With, 90:h, and 97th are interred. ----- By general orders several officers go to England. The weather (noon) could not be finer, and it would not be a benefit to have it any warmer. The Highland division is still spoken of as the one to remain be hind, and the Light as the first to leave. The rail. way is shortly to be taken up, it having been sold to the Heraclean Company. The submarine wire from the monastery to Rape tor's, has now been damaged since the 23rd of March. The spot is well known, about fifteen mike from this, but al y.t no attempts have been ma le to raise the ruble. We do not suffer so much as our allies, as they have a large force at Eupatoria. By the Wes , accounts from that station the fever had pretty abated. At present the telegraphic communication, loth to Varna and Enpatoria, is broken, so that the artillery officers in charge have an easy time of it. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. (MOM OUII OWN COHILESPONDENT.) SOUTHAMPTON, TitUREIDAY The Tagus has just arrived with the Peninsular mail. She left Lisbon on the 19 - h. Amongst her passengers is the Archdeacon of Gibraltar. The Portuguese C are occupied with the finan cial debate. The Minister of Finance has spoken, and has entered into long explanations on the de bating points of his policy, particularly relating to the railway question. The Arabian and Inez do Castro have arrived at Lisbon. — At Gibraltar were her Majesty's ship Ariel and the transports Madagascar and Berwick. Exchanges at Lisbon, 30 days, 54; 00 days, 341. SPAIN. MADRID, APRIL 24. The Duke of Victory leaves this evening for Valla dolid, where he is going to inaugurate the projected railway from Valladolid to Burgos. The Duke will afterwards go to Logrono, and from thence to Sara gossa, for the inauguration of the railway of that town. ME CRIMEAN MILITARY INQUIRY. TWELFTH 131 iTING.—THEI DAY. The Board of General Officers re-assembled this morning. after an adjournmeat from Monday last, at Chelsea Mee. pital. As on every previous occasion, every member of the board was present. At the opening of the proceedings, Lord Lamm repeated a request, negatived os a former day, to be allowed to put in written answers to certain quell. thus which be (Lord Lucas) bad addrased to Admiral Dasdai, with reference to any assistance that could have been afforded by the fleet towards towards the construction ef temporary shelter for the horses. The Judge-Advocate, after conference with the board, said the board were of opinion that at present no cause had bean shown for receiving that which could only be deemed inferior or secondary evidence, bat if Lord Luca° should hereafter wish to call Admiral Dundu, the board would then consider what kind of evidence they would receive from him. Colonel Talbott' then read a statement made by General Allay to the board that if he had known the commis sioner' wished for anything more than general information upon general subjects, be lhould have given semen that would have led the commissioners to form different conclu sions, and also a letter from Colonel Gcsdon, in which that dam stated on behalf of General &ivy that be could give no faller information than ha bad already given to questions, 62 in numher, almost every one of which con , tained imintatione of carelessness or neglect upon the part of his department Colonel Tonal) contended that it was appertat from this letter that the questions addressed to General Airey must have been specific, and ought to have had specific answers. After some wainterestina coovenation, The Judge-Advocata palled upon Colonel Tulloch to pro. pied with his final statement. Colonel Turoch, regretting the difficulties of the position in which he stood, said he had no doubt of being able, nevertheless, to convince every unprejudiced man in the country, of the substantial accuracy of the information gathered by the commindonen in the Crimea, and em bodied in their report. He then went on to read a long pap. r, stating that if he could have brought before the board, as wito eeeee , the captains of transport vessels lying in the liar ' boar of Balaklees at the time when shelter for the horses was so much needed, there was hardly one of them who veld not have testified to the este with which canvas and sailcloth might rave been procured. Had the inquiry taken place in the Crimes, his p sitlon might have been better, as he would then have been in a position to show the daily labour of the cavalry. Not the least of the difficulties with which be lead to contend was the guerded manner fa which military officers were compelled to ex press themselves in a report to the government, statieg what defects they bad eletec'ed, but ab staining from imputing blame or neglect to any officer by name. Asd this was more especially the case when, as in the unseat instance, there was an implied obligation of placing before the country the result of their investigation. He believed the board must be ceicvinced that the commis sioners had passed no aisimadversiens uron any one, but had merely pointed out defect., leaving it to her biejesty'a go vernment, if they thought proper, to push the inquiry farther, and determine where the blame ought to rest. The whole question between the commissioners and those who might be to blame resolved itself into this. In Novem ber it was apparent that shelter for the horses ought to be provided. Yet week after week parsed, the horses were dying daily in great numbers, and no attempt was made to provide shelter of a really efficient character until at lent half the horses had died. The winter was nearly Over, sad the erection of permanent shelter was almost nude.. The question was, why was not that etch'r provided before? The gallant officer then reviewed the evidence given before the commissioners upon this eueject, compering it with the evidence given before the hoer& con•ending that the former fully justified the comen'seierers iv their conclusion that temporary shelter might easily breve been provided ; and that the latter open referred to points upon which no Information was given to the commission whole in the Crimes,, and upon which, therefore, they were at that time keine featly informed by the military dean; while it by no mean. removed the impression previously formed by him, that there had been a great want of ingenuity and Trompti tede in providing shelter fe r the eLvalry horses. In sup. port of this opinion, that sailcloth might have been made available fir shelter, he quoted from the evidence given by Colossi Thempeon, Colonel D,herty, Colonel Douglas, CJlocel Griffith., Colonel L welt, Mr. Bracebridge, Mr. S.wltn•oo, and others. With regitrd to the evi dence of Sir Edmund Lyons, that the fleet could spree no sailcloth to the army, for the purpose c f sheltering the horses, he begged the board to suspend its judgment on that po'ut until the returns which he had asked for should be obtained of the qusatity of reserve nilclo•h and canvas on board the vessels lying at the time at or near Kamiesels and if any difficulty wes found in procuring that return ho begged to suggest that it should be moved for in refinement. Passing to the question of carpeting, he asserted that a fall supply might at any time have been obtained from Gannett throttle in a few day., and taking thin, acd the comparative ease with which sailcloth might have been got into conside ration, he thought be was justified in his conclusion that [ shelter might have been provided for the hones two months earlier than was actually the cue. Colon. I Tulloch next re forted to rho official information sup plied to the commissioners in the Crimea, of the employ. . _ aunt of the eavairy and of the avail tble men and horses for the various duties they had to pert rm (+Welt Lord Lusa had described ss minor objections is the report), enitending that the comm's.ion era were juatithd on that evidence in cooling to the conclusion that there wu a want of promptitude sad ingenuity distliyed in providing shelter far the cavalry. The gallant ea'onel concluded by adv.rting to Lord Luc en's " minor objections." 1, - ;r1 Lucia having been asked whether be could at once proceed with his reply, gad he shou'd !refer waiting until he had an opportunity of reading Colonel Tulloch's state. runt. The inquiry was then a(journe3 until Monday. An ardent paper-war has commenced between the Imperialist Catholics of the P,ris Univers, end the Con stitutional Cabot cs represented by the Corresponannt. The next number of the last-named put•Leiti , n is to contain the first parts cf an historical sketch in which M. de Fallon: will cap - ri the acts of his ministry under the pre sideeey of Louis Natolcon, and wi.l roily to the attacks of the Univers. M de Falloua is assisted in this cinteet by MM. Montalto:then and 11, Br:glie, and Fatter Lscor daire. A letter from Tiflis states tint ltussian General iihrouleff, whore name has cften been heard of in c3onaction with the deletes of Sabastop, I, Eel arrived in trtst city (MO, and will remain attach ,t 1 to the c,,ry r.f the Can can., in order to take part in ru:litary ei.prai:Los against the mountaineer. Same Carmelite monks harr bcen seen in the •tree's of Paris duris g the last h. sr days, •val:ting bare footed end barebeecled, sad harirg on rroy;11 dresses at etched round the • gist *WI a c.rd. The Milan Ga:elle sonoukcta that the Emperor of Austria has ratified tie cortraet relative to the sale of the Lombardo Necetian And Ct Waal 1 wham railway Baca to • private cm:patty. A letter from Berlin, in the Debars, says For some time past it ha* been in eontcropiatinn t surround this capital with a double line of fortifications, whici, scording to the plans • bich have he en drain cu., would be al leagues in extent. Br rlin is et pie ent completely op ted. and has nothing to stop the adviser° of a tostile 'tray. It has now been decided is a high quarter that the plan shall be carried into 'unlearn., cod that tie preliminary works shall be even commented neat moeti. Several pun will neurally be necessary for the execution of this vett under takieg, on tt e surveys for which, since the c , trosencement of the war in the East. the best Prussian engineer onierre bees been engaged." - - THE PEACE REJOlClNGS.—Prertaratione hare cons : rammed in VlClOril.puk, Bethotl n, for the display et' fireworks on the day spininted for the poem rejoicioes ; end similar preparttiose are its be mu e n. once on the summit of Primrose-hill. The whole cf the Arrangements for the displays in the Elyde.riark end Grern.tiark ere completed. At both, buildings-240 feet in leogt`i, CO feet high, and 49 wfde—have been erected. dr.hlEltALgll;l 7 7uN AT ALLOA.—TIIe late ems wander t f the &fees in the Cr.niel art v at the Alloa Ragreey station rr I m Kennet 11 ,, e‘ , , to S.itureity last, at eleven o'Cock. lintreliately on the general meltirg bin app 44444 co, in company with Mr. Brute, and the lady of Lord Henstlaide (alter to Mr grace), he was greeted with three muds of al phase from a large and respec , able assem blage. The general seemed v. ry a ell pleated with his mention. and repeatedly bowel his at.knowlrdgmenU. Ralf-an-tour was spent in the Omitting of trains, and, altar all, the gallant general had to take h a Brat in a composite carriage, preceded by at heat twenty truck; fu I of cude, timber, and trick., which articles, however taadal they would have been to the general in the Crime, seemed rather oat of place when ensumbering his progress towards Baitaad —Atka Adurtiser.