The Express. — London, England, 1856-02-16 00:00:00

etc exprefSgi. TO CORRESPONDENTS. idlertlameate !sanded tee Ile Inreet." Widen Itweibi paper, and be at the Ogee, 10, Boaverf by Two shiest es the day arabilsitkr. MGR WATIR AT LONDON BRIM'. Tsai Dai—igneksc,lo4. 10s. Tliaselmir—Moralas.lll6 5ka.........Mta1i00k 016 Oa. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16. Tax most exhilarating spectacle that life affords is that of good things working together to produce other and better good. That such is the natural tendency of all real good is the encouragement of the statesman in those earlier periods of effort, when he can carry no measure but by unremitting ' perseverance and the cheerful endurance of fre quent failures. It is the encouragement of bees► volent workers on behalf of the health, the edu cation, and the liberties of the helpless classes of society. And from time to time occurs some cheering evidence that the talent, fairly put into circulation, is producing flee talents or tent and, again, that beneficial efforts, which seem to have no connexion with each other, are co-operating for some result which seems equally remote from the purpose of any of them. It is probable that no such thought has entered anybody's mind as that out of the combined working of the Limited Liability Law, the experience of London club-houses, and the departure of Miss Nzonrurctste and her nurses for the East, might arise the regeneration of the female factory popula tion of this country. Yet there Sr. documents before vs at this moment which seem to indicate each a probability. The ease is this. For twenty years past—a term which includes a large proportion of the factory life of England—travellers returned from the United States have expressed a painful seams of the contrast between the female crackers la on, manufactories and those of America. In Birmingham. Maasheater, Norwieb, Paisley, Coventry, &e., the best factory girl. are seldom fit for anything bat their one detail or factory labour. They cannot cook. or sew, or per. chase to advantage, or manage domestic accounts; and too often their manners are hard and bold, sad their mind. wofelly ignorant. In Masmachasetts, on the ether hand—at Waltham and at Lowell, where the inhabitants are es thoroughly a factory population as those of any town or village in Lancashire or Yorkshire, or Lanarkshin—tho womm employed at the mile are like American women in general —without the factory cramp on their abilities, or the factory stamp on their manners, their Weds, or their &mu Why is this f 6 the question con tinually asked. Every girl at any mill in Musa &omits is the child of people who earn their bread with their owe hands. The boors of labour threes» seventy per week. The workers are paid by the poses; and they choose to work twelve hoar.. Their wages are not high—for female labour I. underpaid, in proportion to qoality, in America se elsewhere. The children are paid one dollar (ts. 3d.) per week, with their meals; the mooed clam, two dollars; and the best, only three. 'I he average of Angriest; health is always lower than ours. nos, the Anod ise factory girla have no advantage over owe in rank, in health, In amount of labour, or in wages. Yet, see bow they live They units their earnings (clothing being first pro vides], of course), and make homes for themselves. We have seen a whole street—the pretty country street of an American small town—of houses beloag• lag to the factory girls. Neat frame homes they were, with green blinds sad a plainest verandah outside—and within, a large airy sitting-room, with the keg diniog-table down the middle; a piano at sae sad; prints on the walls; and bookshelves con taining the united libraries of the inmates. Ica the open apses in and near the town are eherche•—also the property of the Ihetorrworkere—cme built by Episcopalians, =ether by ladependents, another by degngationallets, and so on. Recent burgle; have horse testimony to the Beadily klieg observed in a most exemplary manner by a congregated factory pepolation now numbering tens of thousaeds in one pleat sad nowhere move as thee in town, where, as at Lowell, the factory-workers are hoes tone-fifths to three-fifths women and girls. These women end girls have also built Lyceums, where the best lecturers in the country are mord by them to deliver waren of lecture' in the winter evenings. The young wawa have staging. clams, and occasiosel dances. They take country walks as sumer evenings and on Sundays. They manage to make and mend their own clothes. and to appear well-dressed at workieg-days, and hand somely deemed on holidays. As for their weeded &mew tie life, they unite in homobolds of hoes eight to twelve, according to the /dad abeam they Sod them selves able to afford. Some aunt or widowed mother of am of them keeps house, sad gives respectability to the party, if the girls have so pinata as the spot. We need not contrast this with the life of oar *Any girls, eves at their beet estate. Even where they are living at home with respectable parents, having duly attended the factory schools, and seed wash advantages as they have, they cannot be regarded as the same elan with the mill-workers of Massachusetts. Then is, is oar Lancashire end Yorkshire and &Joke mills, a clam whose mateoedents are remarkably like those of the Lowell sad Waltham workare—the daughters of our Cumberland and Westmorelaed "statesmen" es email landowners. Agricultural improvement has lowered the maditice of these eld.fashicmed ankle♦ toe, who dislike new ways. They decline in fortunes, mortgage their land, and are obliged to part with their sots to the shops, and with their daughters to the mills, of the inanafectariag distrists. These daughters are as like as may be is the eirounistanses of their going forth into the world to the fanner/ daughters who spin and weave at Waltham and Lowell. They earn as mach, their permeal expenses may be less (fat clothing is dearer is America); yet who ever heard of say number of them owning a hoes*, or a ebareb, or a reading-room P—or of their independently pureeing a coarse of intellectual im provement, while at the ease time laying by pomade is the savings bank P An American factory girl doss not like to have lees than t6L is the leak whoa ohs marries. There is nobody who, seeing the emstrest, does net sessestly desire that oar famory-women shield be as Irravali, es demist* as cultivated, and as prosperous as the Americas. The time bee arrived fee previa; whether these is any resets why than should not be an elevation of that slue among es. There have beg bees eyes to see that Leedom gentlemen end their clab•house melt set be be our sat eons* seems examples of the monemy of association. Our model lodging-homes have proved to meltitedes what eassfort. respectability, mad favourable coaditions of health may be commanded for less mosey than seal Mount speedo whets shifting fair himself. The law of Limited Liability, when improved as we bops to NO it this sestion, will open a wide and wholesome field of in7estment for purposes of living, lilt', that which has raised whole streets of pleasant homes In New England town.. And the devotedness of the ladies of Min NIGHTINGALE'S band has brought to light an amount of service at command which intho rises us to believe that no good enterprise need fail for want of ladies to work in it. It is discovered that there are women in England eager to learn to teach, to learn to nurse—to find employ ment, in fact, for energies and affections which need some such task and outlet. These things being so, it is with less surprise than pleasure that we see before us the details of an enterprise which seems full of sound ness and of promise. In the neighbourhood of a certain factory, as we learn from the prospectus alluded to, it is intended to erect a Home, under the best conditions of health and muyenieuce, for the female workers. The house once erected, an amount of comfort in lodging and board far surpassing what they have hitherto enjcyed may be obtained by the workers for so little money that they will be able to command great ed.. rational advantages, as well as to lay by. The esta blishment is to include a school, or schools, in whisk orphans or other destitute children will be taught and trained to labour and self-support. There is reason to believe that ladies will swept the teak of superiuten• decor, teaching, and training. If so, we cannot conceive of a higher calling or a nobler aim. As the proposers of the enterprise say—when the workers of our mills become the mothers of another generation of workers the evil of their unfitness for domestic life gathers in intensity, and is productive of misery and degrada tion to thousands. Ia like manner, any rational method by which our workers are placed in a home, where they may and must learn home ways and domestic qulifications, must tend to lessen the evil of factory employment, and to raise the conditions of life to the neat generation. "As one successful self- supporting demonstration," we are told, " would do more good than a thousand theoretical treatises," the experiment is actually going to be tried. One gen tleman advances a thousand pounds at the outset and there is sash an appearance of soundness about the proposal, that we rather expect to ea it carried into effect without a public appeal. If so, and if it sue weds, we will take are that it is made public enough. Meantime, if this notice should excite any interest in the anonymous enterprise we have described, nobody can be at any lose for a manufacturing district in England in which to set on foot a similar useful work—self-sustaining and seltrewudiog. 111Mm.11.. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1856. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AUSTRIA'S COMMUNICATION TO TIE GERMANIC DIET. A letter front Turin of Feb. 12 states that in a repent sitting of the Council of Ministers the follow ing questions were submitted for consideration let. To suggest to the Powers the nuemity of re solving the question of the amnesties, the taking off the Austrian sequestrations, and the free emigration and naturalisation of the subjects of thediffet ent SUM' of Italy. 2nd. To establish the right of Piedmont to co-operate (is case of need) in an armed inter vention in the States of Parma and Piacenza. 3rd. To propme a plan fee connecting all the railways of Upper Italy with each other, and to examine the feasibility of an Italian line. 4th. To show the Congress the necessity of bringing to a solution the question of temporal goverement in the Roman States, u well u that of foreign intervention in Rome. The Name Mete de Handaterg publishes the Ist of the oossamicatioa kid by Austria before the )iet at Frankfort on the 9th tali.: In conformity with the erten of his Murk the Inperial Envoy, predding at the Dist, has the /maw to skiver to the distinguished useably espies of a dispatch Mdressed by the Imperial Cabinet on the 16th Del. last to Count Er • tides', the Austrian Envoy at Mk. Petersham, md of a document from the Etudes. Chancellor, Count Neuelrode, dated Jan. 16, and addressed to Count Esterksrf. The Diet will observe by these documents that the Imperial Court, after radio Atoll is agreement wok the governess% of Frasee and Great Britala spas the prell nliaarke 01 a pease, which those Faller. Sad it con formity with the objest of their alliance, end the general isoprene of Europe—has urgently recommended the aseeptaani of these coaditions to the Court of Bt. Petersburg, end that his Majesty the Emperor of Bemis, moved by the desire ti restore the bleating. of peace to his empire and to the world, has desidel to &dhoti unreser vedly to the Amadei' proposition. . . The rumours of a ministerial modification, which have been only feebly contradicted by the ministerial journals, are not improbable, when we consider the difference of opinion which the propounding of such serious and delicate questions as the above won likely to provoke. However, nothing definite was known on the subject at the date of this letter. Count Cavour set out for Paris on the evening of the 13th, and the Turkish Ambassador was to take his departure the next day. Oa the 14th the Senators and Deputies gave a ban quet to General La Marmara. After the repast the General was saluted with the loudest scale mations by the people. The Wirral envoi ha; leatnetime remover, to tran► nit a ropy of a paced signed at Viten. on Febniary 1, which state. that the representative. of Austria, Prance, Great rßritain, Ramis and Turkey lave parapbrand the test of the ebovehneatiossd prelininarke, and have at the sine tine made knows the intention of their coons to nine plealpoteatiazise who will seenehle at Paris in the warn of three weeks, at Isnot, to order to proceed to the f rural smelteries of a sr/Meiners thavention to the nesc nation Om unions., and t r the cluing of 'egotist one fora definitive peen. It is a lively ea fidaetion for the Emperor Francis Joseph to he able to express in the midst of the rivonaments of deirmsay the hope that the mem% at kngth draws nigh in which the unhappy complications of letter ye an will re ceive a petal' gelatin. His lispity G ciaviseal before hand that the dittiagaished assembly will telly partisipats la his stailmeate. If a /manatee wee suomary to th , s respect, it would paw to the Imperial Court to kaew that the government of hia lbjesty the Stag of Prude, the august friend and ally of the Imperoe, has employed all its influence in order I. bring Busk b soacillatory decisions, and that the Isnrsage Otis other Guinea Courts, szpreeeed at St. Petersburg, has sontribated to the mese cad. OF SEBASTOPOL DOM& (raox rue NIONT'S oAssrrs.) War Department, Feb. 15, 1866. Lord Panmore has this day received a despatch and its enclosure, of which the following are copies, addressed to his lordship by General Sir William Ccdrington, H.C.8.: Hind quarters, Ssbastopol, Feb. 2, 1866. My Lord,—The dee t;notios of the &Cite of Sebutspol is now cupleted ; the sides of tbe list dock were hi IWO in yesterday wornine, snail parts of the wa'l hen and thins only remainiair. Thu the whole of the canal of entrance and north dozka in du rge of the Preach, the basis in our =u tast charge, and the souk docks in a filth sharp, sic @sprite, bat &molese masses of dirt, hea j broken duet, split bears of Unbar, sad shattered gates protruding front the heap of osernsioe. Hailed with Joy in all parts of Europa, the return to pone, the Imperial Govarainent nay b. permitted to believe, will be received by the Diet with a peculiar snit faction is oassidaratiot of the impartaat bearing which the objects dallied to nostitiatia the tone of the treaty of pesos hays upon the politiesl sad seamen al interests of Germany. Then emitting an the same in their essene so thin of which the Coafederstiaa has already genially approved, by interior anolattions, and the two first of which it has sipeeilly resolved to maintain in the point of view of German interests. If the bane far tha asaintinanse of which the Coofedaratios has is same degree penousged, have re/livid k -day • more oomph a divelopmaut ; the Cabiaati of Vienaa, Paris, sad Loan., whose non mead sot but produce a programme of moderate prase—had but ia viaw the doable obj..t of patient g, in the moot eilletaious mans r, the niers of the Wentzell. traelgss which the world at this moment desires to ses as. maned, and toeing, by a suesiestly praline wording of the preliminaries, gingiva 'marmites for oh. rentabliahnunt of a definitive uadanteadine. The dia tagainn governments of the Confab mien will ere that tha entreaties which tla foga peace will bug will may be made t h e more geeing for Gunny by the inelegant g:vie to then points. Oa the other head, the Diet well act misunderstand that tba said Power", faithful to the principles—the collective iniquities of which f tans the load of their alliance—an eamodirationly interdicted from any proposition which would lot be fully jangled by as inseatistible European learnt, sad which, for this very resin, would sot be of a nature which could net be Itamouratily neepted by any one of the grist Powers "hair, in the first rank the teapot,- daliry of ths pare sad pospedity of Zang. Tit. Imperial Coon limy believes that this spirft of **tit ration tad of solicited, forth. general gaud of the peoples. will also c:ominata in the Costereaces about to open, and that acesequently the right expritasly tinned to the hea -1 genet power* la the TIM Point to woven an additica to the Punt Guarantee Palate, now coediting in the ZSlV gran interest.—will en be earredard lea seam which "mid give it the *lint negate aompromising tbs work of pace No auspiciously sonassaid. • The !atom of destruction his been Them Los webs wars formed in the middle revise at its outlet, in as 'neer mad sheltered part of the harbour, owe of the natural watercourses from the plateau on which we ore encamped. This end of the ravine, about 700 was from its mouth. seems to have bees Ailed in so as to create a great artificia l dam of earth, which, with the steep banks oa mars olds, fens three sides of a robed enclosure !oohing down uron the docks. A solid stone wall, much struck by 'to., moans this sort of eaters' equate ; the Rae bat shattered barracks, dandies/ Gull higher en the lift, with the sheds and da k yard buildiage, the misting shame, and a Meg quay to Pert Paul in frost jutting into the harbour, show how well adept , d all was for its purpose. It is now a picture of de striation, desolation, and oilman: there lies against the quay the half-sunken hull of a vessel; sad is the harbour barred, the only *Wage breads' the sulfate of the water ars the lower masts of sunken ships of war. The drainage of eh" miter of tho middle ravine must, however, pus through to no harbour sontawbere, and it was ibis that has so mon impeded the suits ; for the enter from rein often stood two feet high over the floor of the docks, and the of coarse filled the shifts thalami's.. Boon details of the mention of then are given in the enclosed 'natatory from Colonel Lloyd, a.mmsadieg the Royal Bottoms, the Masallate szecntivo offiews being Colonel Borden and Major Nicholson. Amidst gnat dificalties et sold sad woe, very severs frost at ous times, aid perpetually neurriag pressers at nether, tie work west stsedily ea; and great puns is dos to all these sesesrusd, lb. Imghtens and fiepp ra, parties of ths Royal Artdkry, the 18th Regiment, sad latterly of the 48th Regiment. Than parties Want to their daty to-mntow, after (vastest sad laborious work. Tho eavaeltiee have bees bet Ai, of withal' two ealy have bees total, sad oae sa of the 48th Regiment lost by fold ale la a shaft. After several vela attempts by Major Nichol sea, ether Olken sad may t►emwlca desseadiag at great risk, the poJr fellow's body was lartweght up, but life was _ AS II lamb's of the Coandesatima, it. Imperial Coact la pm that the distiaraiebed amembly willow la the protest sommualcatioa a motive for &idol's, la ?ha face cf Bu rrito, that satire Gummy, naltad to Austria, accepts sad la ~laird to ataiataia the bases upon whisk the appreosh las Coate:noes ma to build earl mmeolidate a gemarel peed& You lordship will we that Colossi Lkyd szpreass his obligation to Mr. Deep. sad the chief *aglitter of her Majesty's ship Royal Albert, for their miasma. The voltais battery, we must soafess, didn't always am esed—it seems to mein greet sleety is pnparatke; bet as thane ease' is which I saw it 'wand the aka wee porton —ipitioa sad its result, tbe shake of tbe resod. the Mar in up of the saes seemed is be issuateaeone. The deetraetioa of other things will miles*. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova ow 0012ZIPOWDZIM) PARIS, Fumy Emma. I hew, Is., IN, General Cessaadleg. W. J. The fall of 2 per cent. la Consols came upon the Paris Bosse today like a thunderbolt. But for this most unlooked-for pies of news there would hare Imes in all probability a great rise here. The Bank of France returns are very scud ; the report of yesterday, that bills would be discounted at 90 days' date, is oalcially emsfirmed ; and the coolldenee in peace is as great as war. At Bist a hops was entertained that there suet be a mistake in the telegraphis de spatch which aunouseed the groat fall in London ; bat a sesead despatch, bringing Comas a minnows, lett so roam for this hops. A puled panic ensued, and had it bun possible fee the brokers to execute the sass of sedges to sell, pressed spots this, the fall would ban ham tremendous. As it was, the Rests dropped $0,., Sothic at 721. 00e. It was a little firmer at the else. Credit Mobilier fell SO& The LoXelfiait;;elrc:ii: [Colas' Lloyd's report OM as actottat of the deetrastios of the docks more detailed thee the fetogots. despoil+. hot General Codtiagtoa hoe mated sem pilot of panel latetest]. AN IMPERIAL MARRIAGE AT ST. PETERS- BURG. A oorreepoadout of Le Nord, writing from St. Petersburg ea the Tth, glow the followleg mount of the marriage of the Grand Duke Maoist:—Yesterday evening the sereessay of marriage between the Grand Duke Nicholas Ntecialswiteh sad Nauss the Greed Dashers Alizsedm Petrovae, eldest daughter of Prism Peter of 01 iceberg, was selebrated at the Meta Palma. This aew alliance fa the Imperial featly of Bawls ass bees Allowed by the sympathies of ell theses of wally, Own the day apse which the news beaus hem to the patella Five volleys bred how the ramparts of the Port of It. Petessharg as nomad yestadey, et 10 eV** in the naming, the day of the eslebratioa of ssarrisp. The enlist bride wore, duties the eseemay, • 'regalement crows of &meads. The twin of the (risme ve'vet drew, lined with ensiee, which she wera, was bare by fear ehawb r heas, and by the panel dir wtor of the sew part of the Greed Duke Nielotar. • spleadid rapper A the Marble sells of their Majesties' palms brought together the Imperial lawny and tbe high cavil sod milita-y dignitaries. The amp Weil wes fairy-like. The leediag artists of tee Italian Open performed, daring the basted, a weal eatowt, ce eadonally intredneleg brilliant snore man of lastruniental wade, played by a saint erebestr t. The tenet proposed, to the fleerbh of I:lmpels, were Calmed by diesherges of wawa arid from the forme, opposite the palsies, epos the other bank of the Neva. The city was illeadested, tad the streets crowded with people. M. de Bud and Coast Omer have arrived to-day according to expectation. Four of the Plenipotes darks, besides the resideat Ambessadors, are then. ton sow here—MM. de Bourqueney (France), Bed (Austria). Cavour (Sardinia), and Bremer (Reasia). Count Odd; the ether Ream Plenipoteatiary, will doubtless arrive his. this evening. There wen cm diodes despot hen yesterday from Berlin as to the date el his departee's hem St. Petsesburg and hie arrival them, but I ham no doubt of the ecereetamo et the me which stated he wee to leave Berlin for Parte this naming. At a review at the gendarmerie of the Imperial Heard yesterday, the Slope:or, observing during the Alio( past, two wounded ma who were net deco- rated, stopped them sad asked them qoesticm. His Majesty whispered a few words to an aide•decamp, who thumpa welt into the Tuileries, and pressetly returned with two military medals, which the Emperor proceeded to Wadi with his own bands to the breasts of the 'oldies. Ia Rawls the satire poitelstioa eseseete ea event of this ►led la the Imperial family wii its ow. Ilfe—with the very esisteaes of the 'natty. It wee aseessery to see t►e ho miest Pima, which intim.* bolas the Mater Pelee', co vered with brilliant equipages. la Ca reitembliag mew etosett—oso --- mat haws iti;ek 164;isoventsat to the different dm* to bats idetslood a soresst idea of dot Mows of the olty amid of the order tibial' pistolled. I theold sall *at lb' pablis, whaittel es No weriaa to the Paso% woe sompoesd sot only of tbs Tay assesoise Three was another review this morning of the Choosers i pisd of the guard, at which the Emperor distributed demotions. Afterwards the third regi ment of the Ilse marched iato the rout of the Tuileries, dremsd in a specimen of a new uniform, which was very minutely inspected by the Emperor. At one o'clock the Emperor loft the palace, attended by,a brilliant staff, and assorted by Cent Gardra, for the park of Bt. Cloud, there to review the two regi ments of Cuirassiers forming the pukes of Vea sails., who are under ord.., to naval fur Cantbrai and Vaisnsiennes. peraweeel of the Coautl .1 the =spin, of lie Saab" blialetare, diplomatists' one. the high clergy, of dews of ell podia ed the army sad am, fe- Mirk merdisste sad their Wits, as well as lows Beweita asitheate et the Ant two guilds, bat else ' of • Tory semen= psi& seasoatieg of Mier, alto de set Wiwi Is Os Overt, W wheat Realm beepitelity, of whisk the Cant seer Ws ea emu*, 'posed the tribunes or gawks of eh* bulb of the Pelee.. The steward of the lweeriel Oran diaribstre ea thee, eterlase rasa rhea 1,000 *Astir ; wea ere szelsded Am the Wilmot& Oa the MOWS& of the re &Mop the °read Dube Melw tad ttk brother the °read Doke Maas', here hem sewed Aldes-dessesep Oeaseel. The Ant has she bees sawed Superb* Chief of liagiarters, owl awed thread Mater of Artillery. BERLIN, Faa. IL It is reported tiat the reserve et the Itereisa Guard will be discharged. The farowell Mena gives by Count 8.01, at Vines, es the leth, wee semen/ad, attestled. Priam Gortettakce, Sir Minikes Beystesr, sad Coked de Mast's''', were along t►. palls. X. Chapel, formerly member for the Gerd of the Oseititeest met Lagialative Areal.nee. tiled at Valdes, from ea attack a apoplexy, is the Sib, whilst oa a visit to tM Omeat de Chambord. All the bishops of the Austrian 'mph* are Invited to a eeerecesee at Tisane ea the 6th of April, to erten, with the gereintaent se to t►e mode et carrying oat the reseal ..sandal. THE NEW BISHOP OF CARLISLE. A azmn selectice than that of the Hon. and Bev. MONTAGUE VILLILIII could not have been made. Thoroughly imbued with religious sentiment and con victim', yet hes from fanaticism—liberal in his r tied views—impressive and winning in his public ministrations—Mr. ViLtians hes, by his devoted and unremitting lel:turn as a parochial clergyman, given earnest of the judicious bet indefatigable zeal with which he will discharge the weightier functions of the Episcopate. There are few in any Church who combine in so high a degree the emestial qualities of a Christian Bishop. It ought to be generally known that the appointment took Mr. ViLuzies finally by surprise. Even Lord CLARENDON was only told of it after the appointment had beau made. Mr. Vaunts was not personally known to Lord PALMERSTON. This is honourable to all parties. be Court. The Earl of Clarendon had an audience of the Qume yesterday, at Buckingham' Palma*. Lord Cowlry had also an audisase of her Majesty. Prises Albert eats ea lambi:l;Mb the Prison el Wes and Prises AGM, Mewled by Coptals Du Plat and ILr, Gibbs. Primo Logold visited du Dads. of Oleaosstar at Olottwatar Bow. Res Majesty sad the Prism heswared with their protases is the evettiag the perforates, of the orater:o of Eli, ti the fieered Rensaais fisoiety, at Ruts. Hall. The Prises or Welts, the Pl4lOlOl Royal, Prima Alfred. sad st. Primes@ Aliso setempaaied the Chien and Prises. The royal suite tonsistod it the Dashes' of llstberiarid. Mistress of the Robes; the Cosateme of Dwarf, Lady is Wattle,; the Roe. Bratrks Byag mad the Res. Rory Relied, Maids of Roam In Weida. ; the Mem& of Bresdalbase, Lord Clialabsrlals; the Doke of Welliegtern Master of the Horse; the Xerrisis of Abersern, Orem of Oa Stole to the Priam; Earl Somers, Lord in Welds,; Yr. R Ormsby Gore, Groom is Waiting; Ilijor4esersi Wilds, Groom is Waiting I. hi. Royal Rieman ; Major. Gessral Bonverit, Bowery in Waiting; Captain Do Plat, 'quarry La Wails, to his Royal Higher@ ; and Mr. Gibbs. ♦ deputation, wristlet( elks Bee. I. Hold, sad Mama H. labb, Jolts Hibbard, Samuel Beeehaw, Jeha Rhodes, Thomas &al* Aar., and Garay, of Handawarth, sad )Lame. Hobart Messrs, Joseph Spencer, Thews Hasa, sad the Rev. W. L. Oibria, of Shadleid, had sa 'atomiser with the Hight Hsu. E. P. Boaverie yesterday, at the 'Moe of the Pot r-lew Baud, la Whitehall, ea the subject of the separation of the yarial of Headiworth free the filseilledd Halos, sad its anairaisioa to the liotherleaa Halos. Despatehes for Me Demmer. of the North American pre views wen met lot evening from the Colosial-cam. CAE= ....in fa I C.N.at Caudill, at tha th aft:roma at 2 Vela*. issesd last TBB PEACE AT PARIS. The Rut d Oteteadea will have by the 1.30 traits tr-iay few Bealerme, es rears to Park, i• wider to assist at the diplentatie esafereame about to be held la that capital. The melds fletretuy of State low Pan ijs /Ribs will be scumpsaled by the Cosatses et Clareake, sad that the noble seri anatomists, a seamwhea posisaged sojeara la the French metrepolis may be Omani beat the •at, that ids 'enthral family pressed to Puis .heat the the mesh% week. His Ismileary Lewd Cowley, daring the bet three day% km bad prelmsted isterwiews with both the But of Clarendon sad Vanua Pahamtat. SL Extellasay leave Landoll te-day Ue Peas is name his dlplemetie duties at the imperial emit. The Boa. J Ulan Pane, sttaahad to the ;Earl ef Ciareadea's missies, left tugs is Theieday for Paris ; sad t►e Hoe. Chutes Spring Rite, Mr. Vivian, Mr. and Mr. Villiers Liiter, el the Paratewallat star hit Lea den yesnrCay few Pub Tbs Hca. ilpeame Ponseaby, priest* seerituy t toll ao'cle mil, will deput foe Paris R asp The Run ad Coutes' of Claudiaa pupae ni -1 mete's( tor the sight st Ikalairamad pumas/ the jemmy to Paris to marrow (Saadm). Coat Caesar, the Sardinian Plenipotentiary to Ike Codeesoele, arrived is Paris yesterday, aseempsoled by a seentery sod toe Weskit. He shifted at the Hetet de DA* Plan Vendome. The )[argils end Marshinaeon of Kildare lave wind la tows hoes Inlaid, hsvin paid a siert yids 0 the Dyke sag Dukes a Betherlaad at Trestbsa, as rook trim Daigle. The Earl of Esliatoa Lad a dinner party ea Mania owalag, at kM tosaolaa la et. Joaseasleast whoa the folhowlei wore amens twisitip's gaista:-11; Earl of Mayo, %triad of Assoaloy, Adair's! the Hoc H. 1. awl Mn. Maas. Mrs. Major Bourke, Mr Mesas sad Lady Cimino% Ilk Mesh mad Lady H. Cuqboll, Wood Toylee, M.P., Ks. sad Mn. Mossessaas, The Coasts= of Conserves bee arrived at How &tee lieut. IX Zsaireeiteret. • Th• Coast sad Gnat•r Jama• have arrived at Claridge's Heed. Break-newt _ _ _ irlseonnt Wellesley hes left the QueDdon toe Drigewbsesr. sots Chappeohum. Lad Chad Balallico, M.P., has arrived at Hoy:- Ales Heial, from Rolm The Lady Cochrane pve birth to • daughter yesterday, at otetl-park. Eine. TURKEY. CMOS OM 01/11 0011111170)1111317.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Fn. 4. On Saturday last, %smell Mehemet Pacha, well I known and highly esteemed by all classes during his embassy in London, was raised for the second time to the dignity of Orand Vizir. This change became necessary in consequence of the approaching depar ture of his predecessor in office, Aali Pacha, as Turkish plenipotentiary, to join the Paris conferences. No one is better qualified for the duties of that impor tant mission, and it is hoped that the interests of Turkey will be ably represented, and meet with all du consideration. The peace rumours have thus acquired some degree of consistence and probability; but, as mentioned in my last, I have been thus tar unable to discern in this place many signs of joy and jubilation resulting from that circumstance. The ultimatum, pure and simple, as accepted, we are told, by Russia, is, to say the least, a most mysterious production, and will leave indubitably ample room for discussion and debate. The fifth point, above all, looks not unlike • postscript, which we all know contains, oftentimes, the most important matter of the whole missive. On this, then, Turkey founds her hopes, and public opinion, as I before hinted, confidently anticipates the restitution of those millions exacted by Russia u an indemnity for the expenses of the last war. Lord Aberdeen knows, or ought to know, all about this matter. He was then chief of our foreign department, and his impasses sions and predilections much the same in all proba bility. All that we know for certain is, that Turkey had to disburse in annual instalments 10,000,000 ducats; and further, 1,500,000, stipulated as a com pensation to Russian traders for alleged losses in the course of the war—and this, too, Beg land and France looking on unruffled, in the chivalrous spirit of those times. But now things have taken quite a different turn—and if Turkey, as we are assured, is to be admitted into the family of nations, and her existence secured by common consent and guarantee of all the great powers, • fair start is the least she can expect on the winding-up of this question. To this end, then the Brit and indispensable step is to give vigour and consistence to the "sinews of war," which ,have been sadly attenuated by passing events that is to say, by imposing on Russia, as a penalty for her most unprovoked aggression, the restitution of the said 8,000,0001., a comparatively trifling in demnity, but which would go a long way towards the attainment of the proposed object. A little kindlinesr , conciliation, and deference to public opinion would effect wonders, be &seared, with the primitive populations of this country ; and my impression is, that if fairly and equitably dealt with at the present momentous juncture, they will march apace with the spirit of the age, and progress daily in social, industrial, and political importance. But unfortunately Turks and Turkish sffairs are little understood in Western Europe, and still leas is , known, I believe, in regard to the vitality and wonderful resources of this splendid empire. Let, then, Turkey have but a fair chance and a fair trial on the present oocuion, and she will fight again, I venture to predict, with better success, and, under the auspices of European sympathy and with some deference to her real wants and exigencies, she will form, one day, the nucleus of a mighty and civi lised state, to which millions and millions of Moho osed•uis will owe spiritual allegiance,and flock eagerly from all parts of the world. The weather, with a little variation, baa been splendid during the lust month, and our carnival has thus gone off without many of its wonted troubles and misadventures. This season was enlivened, be- side', by a very remarkable incident—considered as such, at lout, by all acquainted with the usages and traditions of the East. At our Embassy, on the 31st ult., the gaieties closed with a grand fancy ball, and the Sultan, in the afternoon of that day, announced his intention of honouring that fete with hie pretence. This may have been, it Is true, entirely a spontaneous and sudden impulse on the part of one of the most courteous and amiable of princes ; but should it be otherwise, as some pre sume, great credit is due to our ambas,ador for having succeeded at len;th in originating a grand social reform in these parts, and which had baffled thus far the skill and ingenuity of many an able diplomatist. One thing is quite certain at least, that Lord Radcliffe the day before, at nom, had a long conference with Fethi Achmet Puha, grand muter of the Ordnance, who now, as the Turks say, " wears the blue neckcloth," and 'towers above the rest in personal influence and court favour. No sooner was this pleasing intelligence received at the British embassy than messengers and mercurial aitacAis were despatched in all directions to notify the coming event, and request the fashionable@ to assemble betimes in their fancy dresses and at an hour, Aorreseo referees, when our good folks at home have scarcely begun to meditate on the laborious operations of the dinner toilet. Accordingly, at 8 p.m. the company mustered strong—nobles. notabili ties, ministers, ex-ministers, the chiefs of the various corporations, the Greek and Armenian Patriarchs, the Grand Rabbi, all surrounded with their re. sective staffs and nationalities, the elite of European society in every imaginable colour and costume, naval and military officers of all grades and nations, in their glitteriog uniforms, thronged the state ball-room, the corridors, and every nook and corner of our spacious palace, exhibiting a most pleasing and unusually animated spectacle. The palace and avenues were brilliantly illuminated, the long suite of apartments splendidly lit up and decorated ; and that same good taste, elegance, and princely hospitality . were displayed on this occasion, which, I must say, Invariably distinguish the British Embassy under its present occupants. Nothing can ex ceed the happiness and cordiality which beamed on every countenance,—" peace and good will " was throughout the convivial watchword. Many feuds of old standing were amicably arranged, and all those petty animosities inseparable from oar mortal state appa rently consigned to oblivion ; in short, the olive branch waved ever the ministerial, ex-ministerial, and diplomatic groups—save and except as regards Reschid and Mehemed Ali, the Lord High Admiral, who passed to and fro without even a salaam, or glance of reoognitioo. About 9 p.m., at the British depot in the immediate vicinity of one Embassy, the booming of artillery was:heard, and his Majesty, in a state carriage, appeared soon after, escorted by a detachment of British lanolin and • guard of honour, comprising officers of all ranks. The imperial cortege soon shot through the crowds which lined the streets, and the Sultan was received by Lord Radcliffe and all the persotuset of the embassy at the palace entranoe, and, surrounded by his courtiers an all the gnat functionaries, was conducted through the long suite of apartments, and seemed highly de lighted with the novel and gay sasemblage. His Majesty was attired in his harmful, or state robe, the oollar richly studded with brilliants, beneath which the order of Medjulis glittered, with the plaque and grand cordon of the Legion of Honour. He first *peered a private apartment, and after a short delay reappeared in the ball-room, and was conducted to an impromptu throne on a raised platlorm, with the diplomatic corps standing on the left, and on the right the ministers and great officers of state. The Grand Visir and French Ambassador were placed on either side, next the throne, and Lord Redcliffe did the honours of the osremonial. In the course of the evening hie lordship presented to the Sultan the Hon. Misses Canning and Lady Redoliffe, who in her turn introduced Madame de Wildenbeuck with her daughter, Mias Prokescb, and Madame de Soma, the Spanish Minister's lady, decked out is bee national oostume—and whose raven locks, dark eyes, shaded with long lashes, and Andalusian grace and symmetry of proportions, attracted uni versal admiration. Some simple quadrilles were danced in the immediate vicinity of the throve, with which the young Sovereign appeared much pleased, and addressed some gracious compliments to the ladles who figured ca this occasion. Lastly, after a delay of about half-an-hour in the ballroom, the Sultan retired, and having partaken of refreshments in a private apartment, was conducted to his carriage by Lord Radcliffe, and a royal salute again gr eeted . his Majesty in paring on Ms way to the imperial palace of Tcheragen. This, then, you will perhaps admit, is an important historical incident—at all events, we may claim indubitably Ike merit of having been the first to introduce dentin, ball-going, and merry- making among the Osmanlees, and the memorable l evening festivity at the British palace has crowned the work. The very first ball at which the Turks ever assisted was—apropos of the marourkaHust after the lest Russian war, and given by Sir Robert Gordon on board the frigate Blonde, commanded by Captain Lyons, our present dashing rear-admiral. Since then much progress has not been made in these useful end important arts ; for our good friends the Turks have had plenty of other busi ness on their hands. I had almost forgotten to men. tion two little bits of gaucherie at the ball of the 31st, and enacted, much to my regret, by oar own pod folks of both genders. A gentleman in the immediate vicinity of tke Sultan paraded himself in the costume of an Indian dervish—a class, you are perhaps aware, neither morally nor physically in good odour among the Turks. A lady also, who shall be nameless, bethought herself of ascending the throne, after the deperture of the Sultan, and exhibited her fine Spire in this conspicuous post for some minutes to the admiring multitude, until warned of her indiscretion by some kind friend. This evening there is a ball at the French Palace, at which the Sultan will also assist, no doubt, unless the weather, which is rainy and stormy, should prove an insurmountable obstacle. WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SkTtiliDAY. The Royal Mail steamer Magdalena has arrived with the West India mails. She left St. Thomason the 31st ult. Amongst her cargo is specie to the value of 2,900,249 dollars, of which 2,530,249 dollars are is silver and 315,000 dollars in gold. 21,799 dollars are consigned to Colonel Facio. Amongst her puseogers are Bir William Colebrooke. Ihe islands are healthy except Porto Rico, where the mortality wu very great indeed. Mr. Hinckcs, the Governor of Bar badoes, had arrived at Barbadocs. The Eapiegle and Eurydice are off Greytown in expectation of a visit from General Walker. Admiral Fanshawe is at Barbsdoer. A large public meeting had been held at George Town, British Guiana, to promote immigration. Filibusters have landed at Archibald Grace, and demanded possession of Lower Mexico in the name of Alvarez. NAVAL AND MILITARY, CHATHAM, FIB. 15. Two regiments are to be despatched tram Chatham to Bri•ith North Ameriet in addition to the 76t1Regt. end the Canadian Rifles already 111 that contry. The regi meats aelectid for this service are the Nth and the 3rd Bat- Wien of the Rifle Brigade, 60th. PORTSMOUTH, Fry. IS. The steam traitor crt Thames arrived st Spithead this morning from the Crimes with invCids to the member of 2:9, men of minus regiments. The pawns re by this kilo are as follows : Lieut. W. Daunt. 9th Regiment, In charge of the invalids; Staff Surgeon G. W. Powell; Assistant Surat= 1.1:. Ovens, 9th Regiment; Assinant Surge= J. M. Bleckley, 11th Regiment; Magni Badyna IL L. Lundy, 79th Regiment, in medical charge of the invalids; Captain H. Foster, 95th Regiment ; Lieut. H. J. de Carteret, 79th Regiment ; Q. temente Addy and servant, Mn. Powell and servant, wr. John LuArd, I medre .1 staff steward. 25 orderlies, 219 mill'ary invalids, I aroisrant storekee,er, 2 commis. serial &ivies. 1 labourer in the Army Works Corps, and 1 &strewed IMISSO/41—making a total ef 282 tarpons in all. The Theme, left Ba. lance ow Use 27th of January, Constantinople on the 290, Malta ce the Ith of February, sad Gibraltar en the oth. She came into her. tour this aftertmcm, and leaded the invalids a. the Dockyard Jetty. Between 34 and 40 were men wounded at the last att a:a on the Rena; the others were bread& from dysentery, litc. The majority were in a fair gnia of canonry, about 100 bens aide to walk to bar. rack quartiles, whilst others were conveyed there in o.nalbuses and este. fins Cr dg cans were taken to the Military Hospital is cote. AnnumLrf, FIB. 15.—A PPOINTMENTIL—The following Lieutenants hare been appointed to command gunboats: G. 11. Temple (ISM) to the lia3Bover; C. B. mitt' (104), to the loco. tent; G. GOodenonsh (11.51), to the Goshawk; T. B. Witham P Bs '). to the lltettlmPte; J. T. M. B'ebolla (lW)), to the %%hitter ; L. Wildman (111.31), to the Staunch; and It. B. W,olecente (1553). to the Violet, tender to the Brune sick, en, 'crew steam ship it Deron. part. 'llsarer 8. C. Weyth (18$6), to the tiparrowhawk, 4, serest stein gun vessel. Surgeons : C. T. A. Drew to the Intrepid, 8, screw steam gee vessel. of 330-hone power, at Woolwkh and W. 0. Crick; M.D: (1688), to the Impregnable, 104, fag-ship. at DeeetTat. Assonant Parasites IL T. Anley to the Colossus, 80, strew steam ship, of 400.berse pewee, at rot tlaKrtith. A•Bialant Paymastar in e ham T. D. Conooni (1831), to the Spar. rowharek, 4, new steam sun veseeL Acting Clerks: W. P. Taylor to t'e Erryalue, 31, strew steam fof 400.horss power, at Devooport; H. P. Johnstone to the Orbs, 91, new steam ship, of 600-bore. power, at Devosport ; 0. A. Rowe, to the /Ole, 91, strew steam skip, of 300 - hone power, at Davenport; sod B. B. trench to the a.oadon, 10, Meditariaisa stades. Orders wore received at Santhatoptle yesterday to make preparations fee provisioning the ',transport Thames, which has Jut 'thud at Portsmouth. to enable her to take out troops from the tatter place se seem aa panels. NATAL Ping MOKIIT.—Notts is gives in het night's Goad& to Molasses gad coroner of her Majesty's assn vessels Sharpshooter see Leer, Lieutenants J hkerawellay Bailey and logs L. Omlipooserseaders, entitled to shore for the capture of the elan .eh mar, hems miknown, on the 16th of durruot,l62l, that they will Peps i& l reepsollee proportions *rising from the said ran. tore. er Much next, at tie. to, John.etreek Ant*. aid Ai shims net this Unwed will be recalled errry Monday .M =rneperearet to set ot parliament. Admirals tare, 61. 9n5d.; on* 6L L. 4d. ; fourth class, 1/.166...d. • flfth elms, IL 16.1614 sixth elms. lis Id.: seventh elan, 12s. ;; eighth Mem, 01.014. ; ninth Clarreenesa. Agent. elms, Ss. 01d.; tenth dam, St. 361.—Arocsies The Secretlry of State for War has issued a Cir cal. r Memo aadasa coommusitsating to der :mutants that his loniehip has sppoint..d Mr. Dr.wry prieeipal clerk at the branobat Psll:nial, sod an an to be addressed to him, vice Mr. Wood, resigcsd. The Secretary of State for War has sanotiosed the expense of npplyiog the disabled soldier, under certain regulations, with as artificial arm or I , g up in an improved 'energetics. They are very simple nr.d will be of esentisl am to the mutilated soldier. Mr. Jeans is likely to be secretary to Rear-Admiral Mr 111. Seymour. Sargeon-major Thomas Richardson, of the Scots India Gear.* ba - bean appointed wools to his Royal Mesas.. the Dabs of Casobridgr. _ _ . A committee of flag-officers and captains assembled yesterday at the Admbalty, to decide upon the regulations of the new contemplated natal uniforms. Admiral Roue, Captain thepberd, Captain Charles Eden, Captain Pelham, and many others wore present, in comultatioa with the Board of Admiralty. " Hu winter definitively left u ? " asks the Sala Public of Lyons. " For the last week the temperature which prints in the country around this ci'y is that of May. We have had 16 and even 20 degrees shore zero (59 and 68 of Faber/shah). Along the hedges, violate can now be seen in abundance, and the lilac buds are ready to burst into lea- Should this weather continue another week, we shall here rite and apple tenets fall verdure." The Paris Tribunal of Correctional Police Teeter dsy sentenced M. Xavier de Montepin, a well-known morel writer of old standing, to three months' imprisonment sad 600 fr. Sas for having written a novel, called "Les Melds Plates," full of licentious seines and prurient laagesge• IL Cadet, the publisher of Vie work, was condemned to a month's imprisonment and 6001 r. fine for having brought oat the work, and M. Jaequin, printer, to 600 fr. En* for having printed it. All crop.es of the t oink that had been wired were besides ordered to be destroyed. STREET IMPROVEMENTS IN PARIS.—The works of public utility to be executed by the municipal administra' ties in the COWIN of the present year comprise four du Usti claws, via , architecture and floe arts, roads, hydrau lic imprevemene, and the widening of streets. The Ent c►w, including the new church of Ste. Clutilde, the Sorbonne, the barracks of the Petits-Peres, the schools, barriers, slaughter-houses, smirks, eto., will require a sum of 3,772,6001 r. The second claw, which comprises the Improvement, paving, &e., of the bout/verde and quays, as oleo plantations, foot•pevements, and the dredging of the Seine, will absorb 681.6000. Tt c expels'', of hydraulic improvements will amount to 733,000 fr. ; and the purehase of houses for the widening of streets to 4,010.000(r.; toiling a total of 9,090,001 r., or nes•ly 3.000.000fe more than is 1861. The work. now in proeress at the l'alais de Justice, Notre•Dsme, and is Sainte Chat ale, sad those for the prolongation of the Boulevard de Sebastopol, are nod included in this 'moue Goiegnanr • AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION AT PAIIIS.—" It ie said to be In contemplation," says the Constitwtttmeel,'• to have the next exhibition of cattle, agricultural productions. and implements of industry, which is to cpen en the 23rd May sad slow on the 7th June next, held in the Exhibition Palace, is t►e Champs Elesies, the tad weather at times tendering the Champ de Mere very inconvenieet for the purpose. In addition to the injury abich valuable animals may puffer from improper exposure, the dietaries of this Champ di Mars prevent" , many pen n-s from 'irides th e eattle-thews when held there. The Ezhabition Poise* Own petty, as as indemnity, is. it wid, to receive a sem equal i at ro to w , li e tn h e r a d s t i t n t h h e s e e e e Z l P : : a :L e : a /D:6 . 11 t 1 t e : Chump will flu r , e h d a r i b r i l t t s e r b e e e t:a u d e a . ta l r l t urCe n o e ht ‘i r n o u f . d . a o ys t ..e.h.deninthweisolm.:res.;ioozn sack be perac fr s ee, A n u r, int a nis t a ll ti will thee be properly considered." T