The Express. — London, England, 1856-03-15 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY; MANOR IL Nxtraxa in Englend nor in Amnion do the people wish to go to war with each other. Both in Ragland and America the Governosests know thispeople will not permit them to go to war on trivial pretexts. We must confess that President Pixacs and his Cabinet appear to as to be taking an ungenerous advantage of this knowledge. They are exacting apologias from the Cabinet of St. James's in the tone of duellists rather than of statesmen ; or rather in the tone of parties who wish to be thought fire-eaters and talk loud in the presence of the police. We have all along main tained that our Government acted with undue levity and precipitation in sanctioning attempts to en list men for our Foreign Legion in the United Banes without previously endeavouriog to se attain how such a step would be regarded by the an. thorities at Washington and by the American people. But we have all along felt convinced that our Oo nutmeat had no intention to offer any slight to the Goverment or people of America. It demisted from the attempt the moment that the American Govern ment expressed dissatisfaction; and it has made as ample an apology as any reasonable man would ask for an inadvertent offence. But President Pisses and his Cabinet, appareatly not satisfied with aseertain leg that the feelings of the English Government am of the English people towardatheireoestry are amica ble and respectful, aim at glorifying themselves by insisting upon an bumble apology, and the recall dour Minister at Washington, end the withdrawal of one or two consuls. In the event of the latter requite not being complied with they threaten to send these gentlemen their passports. As the question is one of mere diplomatic punctilio, we are perfectly confident that Englishmen and Americana will not consent to be made to fight about it. It is for those who are learned in the "dependencies" of the diplomatic deaths to say how the affair will be finally arranged. Possibly the English Government may allow the Government at Washington to rend the English func tionaries, Basket whom complaints are made, their passports; formal diplomatic intercourse between the two countries will be for a time suspended; the incon venience of such a sate of affairs will make itself felt; and on the mediation of Dome friendly power the Governments will again be reworded. As if the course to be punned by the English Cabinet with reference to the demand of the Ame rican PRESIDENT for the recall of Mr. Cameron were not a onfficien tly perplexing question, Mr.Casitt- TON has seen fit to conduct himself, with reference to the Nicaraguan affair, in a manner that renders it more perplexing still. In the course of several am vereatioas with Mr. BUCHANAN on that controversy, Lord CLARENDON expressed a desire that it should be referred to the arbitration of some third Power. Mr. BUCHANAN alleges that Such OM tares were not sufficiently formal—that they ought to have been embodied in a letter or &spank. We believe it is customary with any government before brassily proposing to refer any matter in dispute between it and another government to arbitratioa, to endeavour to ascertain whether such a proposal will be acceptable to the latter. This appears to have been Lord Cf.muunint's object in the conversations alluded to; which were duly reported to the Cabinet at Washington, but elicited no response from that quarter. Bot Lord CLARENDON went farther. On the 10th of November last he addremed a despatch to Mr. Outer:ex, in which the following pomp Kr. Daihatsu haviag, In the tows of Keversatioa a few days sr, adverted to the haptueion that would be created is tta Wilted Butes by the sestaattleasat of the Cuarsi Amorists gasstien, I 'pia assayed bin that Itaitssi so wish to extend bar indasawa, or to Kaaba say territory, to that put of the word, sad reminded Ka that, ea the darns., bstwesa this °assay sad the (baud Maus tuned solely span the total Mattis at the treaty el NO, I bad offered, ea the part of bar Majesty's geversmeat, is submit the awe to the sibitratia• of a third power, bat that he had decitsed the off.r. Her Majesty's gewsrassat, I said, woed still abide by that offer, sad I thsaibt that woad be the fstrest sad most ratable saws Of attiring at e sittanneat of the qualm.. Mr. Basbasaa said M would make it knows Is his porernuast, tad ere inetrw► tire to esuseueleate Ws despatch to Mr. Mercy. With this injunction to communieste the despatch to Mr. MARCY, Mr. CRAMPTON did not comply till the 27tla of teat mouth. In the letter to Mr. MARCT with which he accompanied it he soya :—" The truth la. the last paragraph of the despatch escaped my actuation until I referred to it lately; end as I was aware that the negotiation of the question regarding Central America was io Mr. BUCHANAN'S and Lord CLARENDON*/ hands, I considered the despatch as merely assent for a copy of information aa to what wee going forward upon a subject in regard to which you were already informed." In other word', Mr. CRAMPTON did not take the trouble to read atten tively a despatch received in November, 1864 till "lately;" and when he did read it ha took upon him self to disobey it, on the assumption that the Intel brace it contained most have been transmitted through some other channel. It is pretty clear that Mr. CRAMPTON is not a MAO to be trusted with im portant business; and we cannot see how the Rog bah Goveroment can do otherwise than recall him. It is possible, however, that President hence, not satisfied with a simple recall, will insist upon having the reason for it expressly stated; and that the rea son assigned by the English Government will be de clared insufficient by the PILESIDINT. Bo the ques tion of punctilio between the two Governments will remain exactly where it wee, with the additional emberramment to the English Cabiaet, that while, on the one hand, to recall Mr. Caastrrow at this moment might have the appearance of sacrificing him for doing what he woe instruoted to do, on the other, not to recall him would be to overlook a grave offence, and repose assfidence in one who has shown that he dose not deserve it. In days of old, when the people counted for godlier. such delicate dilemmas would probably have ended in a resort to the arbitrament of war; but, now that the people count for something, there can be no doubt that their vulgar common sense will out the Gordian knot which dainty diplomatic fingers cannot untie- We know how people feel on this side of the water, and Mr. SewAses recantation of his first warlike speech is a tolerably reliable indication of the state of faeliog on the other side. There will be no war be tween England and America on a point of punctilio like this. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1858. This dm Of eh sissei, is., OUR RELA'IIObB wish AMERICA. The Corropcsukhoe Kumla Ur SoIKI lad AMMO'S 734 7 1711 err owe twos the tottootist Qualls% on pnwoolod to UN United ct,ocrout, fib. 211, UK am Los. rvo, owl Ce., End* sod llatittiolsokeeders sad 47, Luttgatobill. Leselea. re', elx;preoo. ft aillilellnieliblQed in "The lairea,94paiss Swift lefs. mobosse• MIK w.. Mtvirierlnst.W Tee Wink la the dvallala KEYS WATII AT LONDON BAUM. Ts. Dav--riams, n. 1ka........Anana" 116 . TIMONIMPIP44IIIIIII6 LOU. I. Or course we are all of us eager to suppress the national abomination of wife•beating. The sandal and infamy of the thing are becoming utterly intole rable. Morning after morning the nerves of the well-regulated portico of the community are wrought up into a perfect shudder dinner and disgust by the monotonous record of atrocious brutalities mailed in the police reports. The Mika as is only oatmeal, l are vehemently indignant, and, as is equally natural, vigorously prompt in their schemes of repressions. 1 We don't refer, of worse, to the MART How ITTS and the ELIZABETH BARRETT BIOWKINGII, but to those more average specimens of womanhood whose forts lies rather in feeling keenly than thinking deeply, and who are apt to rush epee a social evil with the first legislative weapon that indignation supplies. With these Menus of the breakfast table the leek is the favourite remedy for wife-beating. Mr. Dir.Lwtri of the Wind opinion. Lamed of six months' hard labour he suggests two, with the addition, ia all suss, of one private whipping. If legislation were a mere affair of feeling and impulse, we should be strongly disposed to renew with Mr. DILLW7N. Taken in itself, the operation of flogging a wife-beater is an act undeniably grate ful to those instincts of wild justice of which the most advanced utilitarian can never, we an told, be wholly cured. Bat when we are asked to make laws we cannot afford to owed, too much even to the finest prompting' of uncultivated manhood. Other considerations necessarily present themselves. Highly agreeable as this penalty may be to our natural sense of vindietiveoess,will it remedy the mischief we want to put down P Does it go to the root of the evil—does it deal with causes, or only with Where P bit likely to mitigate the ferocity of the brutal husband, or abate 1 his habits of druokenness, or shake the foundations Dither marital despotism with which be is now /s -uited by the folly of the law P On the other hand, bee it any tendeasy to check the tongue, or incubus the clesalinses, or improve the household knowledge, or, more dna all, to elevate the legal status of the coarse and slatternly and helpless wife P These are the main sums of that social disorder of which wife beating is but the most flagrant symptom. In what sense is your law a remedy, if it merely provides a doubtful palliative for the symptoms, and leaves an. touched the sources of disease P No: other things remaining as they are, wife-beating would still be the practice, though hasband-fleggiog should be established u the law. You would have done absolutely nothing to remedy the plague you want to extirpate. Yon would merely have defaced your statute-book with a barbarous law in a vain attempt to suppress a barbarous prac tice. You cannot lash human brutes into manhood you may brutal, them into still more repulsive un manlier:. What then is to be done P Many things, to delay which any longer would be a scandal and reproach to our Legicature, as greet as wife-beating is to our population. In the first place, the legal status of women in married Life must forthwith be altered by the supreme authority of the Legislature. It is a matter of the highest gratification that the necessity for this step should so clearly have been discerned by the foremost women of our time. The Woman's Petition, presented last night to both Houses of Parliament, is the commencement of a womanish destined, we feel convinced, to work out a most bene ficial change in the domestic relations of English society. It points to the only effectual remedy of the =iamb's social disease, the spread of which has done so mach to mar the happiness and degrade the character of oar coantry. Foreigners universally, and unthinking people at home, attribute English wife-beating to inherent brutality of temper in the English husband. The best and wisest of English women have ventured to think otherwise. They have come to the conclusion that in this, as in so many other ours, evil habits are the result of evil laws. Any law that sanctions slavery, engenders despotism. The commas law of England makes marriage a slavery on one side and a despotism on the other. By the amass law, the wife is merged in the husband. She eon bold no property of her own : all her wings are his ; all bar 'moveables are hie ha is sole lard of all her sub steam sad of all her industry. Equity, indeed, has her., as ia ether asses, stepped in partially to relieve the extreme rigour of the law, and enabled the married "mass to protect certain description' of property from the group of her hubead, by the cum brous process of having it settled on trustees to bar own separate use. Bat we are not now talking of the Glasses who ere provided with 'dotes or protected by settlements; ws are talking of that class which has the unenviable distinction of supplying the daily papers with nine-tenths of the wife-beatleg cuss; sad in speaking of this class it is the 'Met truth to say that the wife, as far as all rights of property or means of separate livelihood are concerned, is the absolute slave of the husband. As long as she lives with him, all she has or earns is indefeasibly his; it, driven out by ill-usage, she leaves him, and endeavours to earn a separate subsistence, he can come whew he plasma on her little store, and, with all the authority of English jurisprudence to beck him, seize it as his own property is the name of the common law. CAM of the kind are occurring every day. Four years ago (what has been due la those four lug years?) Lord Sammie,' stated before the Commissioners on the Law of Divorce, a ease of the kind which bad occurred in • higher social rank than those to which we have last been alluding. A wife, driven from her home by her husband's brutality, was recommended by her Mends to set up a schooL Their sympathy and bar own talents mending her efforts, else wee moon in a fair way of realising for herself and her children a modest competency. The husband discovered her adders, forced himself into the house, claimed the property as his, squandered it while it lasted, and lett her when it was spent. The whole subsequent history ot the poor woman's life was a series of similar attempts on her part, succeeding for a time, and then utterly thwarted by the legalised and irre sistible injustice of her husband's spoliation. When such is the state of the law who can wonder at the state of the life P Absolute power is good for none—in the hands of the coarse and violent it is cer tain to be abused by the most deplorable .:nausea of tyranny. The first step towards a law which is to be realty remedial of wife-beetle& is to raise the legal status of the English married woman, with respect to property; to enable the woman, who, by literatur e or art, or manual industry, possesses the means of making • livelihood, to secure to herself some inde pendent share—wow inviolable interest, in her earn ings. This ie the first step and the moat important of the whets; many other things would follow se ot course, if this step were once secured. When it was coos sacertained that the married Englishwoman did not, by the mere formation of the conjugal tie, lose at once all independence and all individuality, a change for the better would smu be discernible in the habits and training of the lower classes of oar fellow- eouot ry women. The ignorance and the 'backbone—the Spica! habeciliti and the ostentatious seallellieWl— which now war against the happiness of so many bumble homes would fast disappear, sad in their steed we should have that happy coo. inanity in exertion, that friendly and so-equal participation in toil, which now gives so ouch hearty sad healthy enjoyment to the marriage 'relation among the peasantry of France. Let the advocates of the lash remember that the fault is not so much in our people as in our laws : it is very easy to flog, it is very difficult wisely to reform t but the %reser 411 the hasty espediestot barbarous poser, the latter ts. true function of advanded *Motion. This Hew* Legislature has been toe long supine in Able matter; anises they wish the conjugal relation as it exists among our lower orders to be a by-word of reproach throughout the whole world they must be supine no longer. The task before them is not to brutalise the husbands by an application of the lash but to improve the position of the wives by an amend asset of the law. Ice we remember aright it was Sir Thomas Mona who tauntingly told his wife that in return fee her wearying HEAVEN with prayers for • boy, she bad got one who would be a boy aLL his life. We wonder if any of the blood of the Monts rune in the veins of Mr. Baron ALDERSON. At Maidstone, on Wednes day last, the learned Baron addressed a group of obstreperous school-boys from the Bench in the cha rming of an " Old boy;" and a vein of most rollicking boyishatie ran through the whole of his parenthetical remarks on the ease he was trying at the time. He interrupted the principal witness, and reprimanded him—a boy of fourteen years of age—for unag the word " papa :" adding, "If a boy talks atont his papa at school he is sure to get into it." The facetious "old boy" next entered into an elaborate defence of the system of fogging. " He said there was no harm in it, where the boys were all treated alike, and the son of the duke could claim no exemption." Perhaps if Baron ALDERSON had sot been doomed, like the heir of the great author of the " Utopia," to perpetual puerility, he might have understood that the thrashing of the pony son of a duke by some great lollopiog plough-boy, is as objectionable as the thrashing of some ofiaxen-headed now-boy, as simple as might be," by the athletic son of a duke. Bat this was • flight of philoeopby beyond the juvenile intellect of the " old boy," and accordingly he proceeded to apply his doctrine of equality to the case before him. It appears that at the School of Tunbridge there are two classes of school-boys : the free day-scholars, and the boarders who pay a handsome annual sum to the muter. It is alleged that the latter clam are allowed to take gnat liberties with the former; and though this was denied in court by the barrister retained for the de fence, no evidence was offered in support of the denial. Among the plebeian day-soholars is, or was till lately, the son of a clergyman, a sickly lad of four- Ina years. This luckless youngster, on being ordered by a hale, healthy member of the patrician ulnas, aged seventeen, to " fag for him in the cricket eissed; declined, on the plea that his father had for bidden him to enter the cricket ground. For this sot of insubordination the sickly boy was next day thrashed by the strong boy in presence of the assembled school-boys. liii.misfortune did not end here. Sickened and stupefied by the in fliction he loitered on the way, and on his entering school was punished by the mashie kw being tee late. Either the master did not assicessed to irk whether the boy had any excuse for his want of pus► tuality, or he upheld the authority of the yewg patrician whose blows were the cause of his befog behindband. The father of the twice flogged lei sought redress from the master of the school; is vain. Be sought redress from the Justices of the Pease ; in vain. He appealed to the Court of NAM and the presiding Judge bullied the injured lad, joked with those who had beaten him, and finally scoffed the ease out of court. It is not an unfrequent trick with dramatic writers to stuff a heroic moral sentiment into the mouth of some fanny character at the elms of the piece—a device which seldom fails to befog down the galleries. The " old boy" of the farce we have been describing availed himself of a tag of this kind. Re pathetically adjured the young ,boys to remember that if the Patricians mauled the Plebeians in future they would not act like gentlemen. So far geed; balk wield have bees better to have added Sat if a bin Wen boy best a weak little bey he exisid ail libe a rallies and a coward. The hems tint eleasstb ought not to be abused against the weak, eased be taught too early or too often. The bully of the play ground is the domestic tyrant le embryo. We have, perhaps, as little sympathy with I milk-sops or sneaks as the "old boy" himself; bat we have not hie pndileelist for the big bullies of the play-ground. We baresamemeksted mildly with the "old boy =and iteMeirbet is his own strain—in the preens& Wass% begin he may mend. But if we Sad Idea again eseearaging big school-boys in ads of musky to little ones, and disporting himself at the bomb as he might do is his inn after dinner, to shall be obliged to speak to him more seriously. The following are the meetings of the Literary sod flottatidelbseistiss for dot imolai mak :—Mooday—Moysl Anode:ll,o. "On Sonlptsee." by Ms R. Wastotssott ; Sta ostiosl,B, Ths Book of England, its prosiest cosontattoo and optratlons," by Mr Jellises. Toroday—ltortbroltasel. 2, 0 (5a British osk Timber; " restitution of Civil Begi nner, 8, "Oa Imprivaasate la D.viag Dram," Its., by Kr. Betake; Linnets, 8. Wedseeday—Soriety of Ara, 8, Oa the Prlaelplse regulable the Transfer of Bahl Plants of one country to mother," by Kr. Yashiro; 1390- ivied. 8, " Oa eons say( osd ilLansaaliaa Bassist from the Bus of tb• Liu," by the Bet. Kr. Derma ;" "Note oa the Borings in the Valecelesses Co .1.8r1d," by K. Leonia; "Oa the Age of some of the Baadstosee and Breadas is the (loath of Bs shad," by Profane Hark. sae; "Oa the Osoiegy of the Idle of Trialdad," by Kr. Bower. Thanday--Boyd Aseirlay, 8, "Os Palming," by Professor Hart. Government (we leers from the ittliewauns) hu et inith dose someditag &Ades with regard to oar State paper. Tares sateinat watigaariee have be.. net at work epos them—to mart, arraap, sad calendar their contents. Mr. Imam, Keeper of the State Paper., takes the nips of Patrud the Sixth (already *gleaned sear stages) sad the sell tines reigns, Yrs. Bwrstt Orres—anther of "Ides of the Princesses of Essiand"--is laboariag at the times of James the First. Mr. John Brea hit undertaken the rags of Charles the First sad the perioi of the Common wealth. Is a few yam we may hops to see three Papers IN available to biologic.' Musts se are the Measscripts in the British Idaseans. The Council of the Royal Academy has at length takes up the (pasties of Piciorial Copyright. Last sight a mating was ball is Trafalgar-aqure, tom:adder the beat mane to he adopted. In Mendelssohn's °vertu, to the "Midsummer Night's Drum," Stacy Costa was ammo& when he eon. maned his labours at the Philharmonic Concnta, of eon dastarg at a racing spool!. A correspondent of the Athe neum writes I heard Meadessohn myself, at Birming ham (.s the self-seine year whin t • charge waaksid .gayest the Lanza e inductor sea pleas of Italian grimace) tike the Map of th.t cheir&ag overture (aster than I ever heeri it takes ti say or • also; end I asked him, altar the concert, whether that was his intestios. "Oh, doer, so,' was Men dalseohn's mower, but one most be in a nary humour sometimes. Music cannot always go at the same rata.'" The eniermeops is now aged against thieves. A boz, containing meaty, was lately lifted from a railway train la Prude. emptied of its elating, sad BIM with sand. The °lice set to work; bat the lead around almost every sta. Lion in the mirth of Prussia to Beady; sad the Berlin thki!- e dam mem at (talk Member' come into the field. H. carotene examined t►e mad is she box; sad thee mat for wimples of seed along the Has. To the eye ell the Daman appeared alike; bat the powevfal fastrament &Meted 'light varietioas in dm minute vegetable life; end the fits. tics whore tap qu bad bees abducted res SCOI feud and the thief fa jail. Vbe Court. Nees &tweed of Saxe Weimer visited the Queen yesterday atHoekiaghant Paleee. Prices Albert, attended by Captain the Hee. D. de Pm, rode oo hariebtek te the moraine, end Tidied the Pods' lately maimed atHenslagtoe Gore by the Reyal Cosa missies. Sir W. Cebitt sad Mr. Edger Bowriog we.. present to etedset hie Royal Highness over the property. The Prises v int,d the Royal institution la Albemarle-greet la the &Smoot'. _ _ _ Prince Victor of Bohanlobe paid visits on Thursday to the Dueness of Glomeeter at Olouseeter-"osse, and the Dachas' of Cambridge at her residence in S. James's Palace. His 8000011 flinMeas left Baeklagliam Pilaus yesterday for Portsmouth... flwerbreck had the heaver of sub ealttiag to the Queen and Prism Albert his portfilio of 061061 drawings and sketches in Bostlaad sad other ports. The Queen ass Priam Albert, with the Prizes of Wale. sad Prises Alfred, homonred the Haymarket Theatre with their preterce in the evening. In at:mdse.,' were Laiy Churchill, the How. Flees Macdosald, Lord Casey', Maier- Gam! Buckley, mad Captain the Hos. D. de Roo. The bllowii g gentlsmse were presented to the Queen, at the Levee, on Wednesday: Breve-5640t Cinhant, 41st Regiment, es promotion and return from the Cringe, by Sir Adolphus Dalrymple. Corer' R Lass, on appointment to 9rd Light Dragoons, by Lientenant-G•sera! Lenient.. Cure' t A L 5,,,,,, i n app.:stared to Sed Light Dragoons, by Lisstanazt-Cisaaral Lamour. A depatat'on of the Greet Western and the Oxford,Wor water. and Wolverhampton Railway Companies, had an interview with Lord Stanley of Murky sad the Right Hon. Rohert Lowe yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The deputati,m consisted of the Right Hee. Simon Walfolc, Viroonat Berringtem, Mr. Williams, red Kr. Brunel (Greet Writers); and Mr. Panes (Deputy Ch.irmso), Ur. Pakiegeon (Director), Mr. Harebell (S Bator), end Mr. N. T. Smith; (Scientary) Orford, Worcester, sad Wol verhampton. Sir William Macarthur had en interview with Mr. So maim Labour:hen deiy, at the Cnlonial-oglce. A meeting of the Oxford University Commiesion wu held at No. 17, Greet Queen-street, Weitntierter, on Wednes day. The Cnerniiirioners present were the Earl of Elles mere, the Earl of Harrowtre. the Hu. Edward Twilletos, the Dun of Wells, and Striolus W. Awdsiry, and the Sure. tube. (PlOll LAST MIOIIeS OASITTI.) - - LORD CHANBILILLAIN'S 011 , 1011, Attica 13.—N0. ties M berevy given, that her blaiery will 1 , 0•61 Drimeisp. ' , one at Bt. Jemse's Palate, ow the toiletry, any., at 2 o'eloek :—Theriday, 10th Apnl alit; Temday, 291 At ril 26:e. ----- LORD CHAYBULetn's OFFICE, MARCH 13.—N0. tile is t erehe g yrs, thst her hisjesty will hold Lerma, at Bt. Jamee's on the following days, at 2 o'rlo - it : Wednesday,. 18th April neat; Wednesday, 7th May nest. ST. JAMEB'II PALACZ, MARCH 12.—The Queen was this day tleamd to sector the honour. t f knighthrod epos Llentenant-Colohel Hugh Lyon Playfair , H E.C.B , Provost of St. Andrews ;also upon William Maorthur, His . , of Camden Park, New it Wider , BT. JAMEBII PALACE, MARCH 13.—The Queen be. been pleased to eppo:at Magnus Forbes Morton Her. bert, Esti , late Captain if the 48th It*stiment, Rime of bet Maps y:s Rot al B vtly Guard of the Yeomen of the Gaud, vire Mai If Pb. ob,, who rodeos. WHITEHALL, MARCH 6.—The Qoten ham been pleased to resew the commtseion of William Mathew Arti st+ mg. gent., as hoot. nest in the Ar:ills Ty Comp toy of L melon, for a farther perind cf five year. from toe date hereof. The Qom' has alto been pleased to anoint Thames Pb. Ipe gent., to be lieutenant in the Artillery Company of Loi.don fa the term of Ave ram from the date hereof. WHITEHALL, MARCH 13.—The Queen has been pleased to po,lost the Rev. Alt:ender F.,leoner to the dare) and Oar eh of Deasy, is the presbytery and toasty of *Hillis', vagina by the reffigastlea of the Rev. William Ladeno^. Fl , MARCH 13.—The Queen hu bees pleased to approve of Kr. Abraham 'wools es Vice- Consul at Quebec for his Majesty the Hien of the Belgians. Fonnws.orrics, MARCH 13.—The Queen hu boss pleased to approve of Don Adolfo Gnißeamed de Ara a•,n a. Consul Gametal at Sierra Leone ; Den Owner indo Odes y P rouse Via Consul at Sierra Leone; Doe Pedro Ann t y Peres de Loos as Vies Consul at Bathurst; end Rae Alejandro Crone as Via Consul at Accra, for her Milian, ski Queen of Sptin. DESPATCHES FROM GEN. (MOM LAST NIONIT'S C1A21171.) War Department, March 13. Lord Panmare has this day received two despatches and an enclornre, of which the following are copies, addressed to his lordship by General Sir William Codringtoo, Sebastopol, Feb. 29. My Lord,—The enure/ to sey inquiries relative to filisjor hi'llowao, of the 93rd Sigh/enders, is, I regret to state, that this (liar deed f his wounds in the hospital of &bar topol on tt e 14th Airline, 1863. I mashies Genera Ludes.' letter, with the Rowan °Mend return of Molar }Mow's'. death.—l have. itc., W. I. CODILINOTON, Wang Commanding. Tim Lord Namur, to. ♦u Quartier Nedra', Feb. M. Monsieur le C lasaandanaen-Chif,—The iaquirise made on the stillest of Mejor M'Clossan, of the Wed Regiment of Iligh'sniere, begin proved that he hie suck seder his wound, I consider it my duty to tramesit herewith to your Eacellencl the certificate of the death of that dam. (Mimed) ♦ Lyons. Hie Excelling General 8., Wm. Codrington. &c. &boob:T*4 Fob. 29. My Lord,—l regret extremely to hate to lafores. year lormMiy el U.. dee* of Moja Stakes Milts Royal Ea gutters. He bed the superintendence of the operalkos neesseery for the destruction of the large Wbite Barracks, in the Harabtl tie, where pert of the saints were fired yesterday aftersooo, but oatmeal of then did not ezplode. liej r Baskets, is the eaergetie perfeentases of his ditty, seems to have proceeded to light the fuse again, in several Ogees where the ostanezioe bad failed. It imams the powder haw, es well es the fats, igelted—the ezplesion toot place, end Intend hue wader the reins of pert of the wall. Georgette effmts were made at ease to direover the body, and the removal of the ivies began and maturaed through out the albs. This morning ohs body was loved. Death mut have been immediate; sad thus this emilleat sad gallant other, who had done Road daty is the siege and at the assault of the Ridgy, lost hie lrfe from eagerness to complete the ',ark entrusted to ►im.—l have, &e., W. J. CODZINOTON, General Commending. The Lord Peamure, &a. sic. SUFFERERS BY THE LATE FIRE AT COVENT GARDEN I HEATER. We have much pleasure in giving publicity to the following note : " Mr. Michell having received moseross gement mosey to be applied to the temporary relief of the labourers, me chinks, end others, thrown out of employment by the re seat destruction of Comet Garden Theatre, sod this morn ing Irivtog been entrusted with the mueillesat sum of one hundred pounds by h s Gram the Deka of Devonshin, begs to that be is reedy to receive say additiowel sub scriptions, and that arrangement' will be made for 'Coedits immediate assistance to the most pressing area, and for a proper appic.t.on of the funds whiok may be kindly entrusted tt, him. " A het of the sub , eribers stay to refine' to, but it erEll not be coasidered !lei:every to inu► the expense of adver tising th.ir news. " Royal Library, 83, Old Bend street, Much 14,1866." Prinoe Victor of Hobe°'oho left Buckingham ce yestarday for Pottsakostb. The Counters Be ens Kialmansegge has left the w !Adores of the Har.overlan Lenstioe kr Gowan Hail, near Ate; won*, on a visit to the Sesl end Comities Home. We regret to announce the demise of the venerable Lo'd Boston, who *spired on Wednesday last, at his seat, Hedger, Beek., in the 79th year rf his rge. Lord Boston is succeeded by hie eldest toe, the 1100..Georis Ives Irby. The Han. Robert Rutledge Craig, her Mujeaty's Atttrosy-G nue sod gooos's Advocate of British Balsas, died at the Oro's, Coutisrwril, es Wodaiisday loot, to his 390 Tear. Major Leonard Vat= Willard, of the 11th bat t hoe of Royal Veterans, • magistrsto lot tit. county of Sasses, who died at Rsatboora oh the 12tb, was Bopp and to be the last ntrviver of tt e large army that fought at the htti. of Lathwasve, is the East ladies, sad.: Lord Lake, in 1802. There ate forty candidate for elation into the t./al &misty this year. Tbis samba .lewd, Oat of toy ;dawdle; ices 1847. The day of election is egad this row for tho nth of Jae*. wiles Maass saailldates will esbnitted by the maid to the nasty eleedos. THE ACCOUCHEMENT OF THE EMPRESS. The Post publishes the following in a third edi tion: PARIS, Skil/IDLY. 12.20. The Empress began to suffer labour pains at four o'clock this morning. AU the great dignitaries are at the Tuileries. The Senate and Legislative Corps are convoked. All goes well for the moment. BERLIN. FJUDAT. M. de Zedlits Nenkirch, Chief Councillor of the Government at Liegnits (Silesia), is appointed true. moor to M. Hinekeldey in the Director-Generalship tot Polito. BERLIN, 114ics 14. The Csas, an official journal of Cracow, publishes the following :—" A general levy of recruits, or dered by government, will be made in Poland toward. the 16th of the month." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mow ova ow* CORIIIIIPORDIOITI PARIS, Fanur EVININO. The Constautumnel states positively that the Pope and the Queen of Sweden will be the godfather and godmother of the expeetcd Imperial infant. The following is the last bulletin issued relative to Prinos Jerome : Mach 14.9 cm. The inflammation of the sheet with which hie Imperial Highness is sttsclunt hoe reached its meads day. The last night has been more tranquil, and the cough less frequent. The Senate is at this moment giving proof of its power to take an "initiative." The Moniteer states that a report on a proposition for a "rural code Is on the order of the day. It must not, however, be supposed that this measure is the result of the recent Imperial scolding administered to that body, for the report relates to a motion made by Mr. Senator Ladonoette, as long ago as 1834. The debates of the Senate being secret, by a rule of the present constitution, the senators, indi vidually, can only look to be applauded by their own approving consciences for the seal and ability they may show in the matter. The general result, indeed, should their deliberations produce any, the public may hereafter be permitted to admire. The admira tion for anything useful achieved by the Senate, will be the more intense that it will be aided by the charm of novelty. _ _ It is said that upwards of twenty-five thousand perms have been to the Hotel de Ville yesterday and to-day to see the imperial cradle. I maw this morning a spiral queue of people, extending from the Place de l'Hotel de Valle, and far along the Quay, so long and so closely packed as to deter me from adding one to the number of so much good company. It is annotinoed this evening that by order of the Emperor and Empress the exhibition will be pro- longed for another day. The cradle will not be pre- Dented to their Majesties till Sunday morning, the 16th. This shows that the accouchement of her Ma jesty is not supposed to be immediately at hand. The partisans of March 20 are in extasies. - The Congress held its ninth sitting to-day. At the Bourse, the official confirmation by the Monifeor, of the news that Prussia is to take part in ' the Congress, produced no eff,et, although it is gene rally considered u a certain indication that pesos is substantially concluded. As frequently happens when great events are known by certain privi leged capitalists sooner than by the public, the ' natural Influence of the fact upon the market was " discounted" beforehand. The peculiar feature of the present state of the Bourse, which I have more than once pointed out, still continues, namely, over speculation for the rise. People who have not the means to take up the stock they have bought, and who have been repeatedly frightened of late by unexpeetid falls, seek to realise or does their accounts on tolerable terms whenever an opportunity offers, and they check every incipient rise by their sales. To-day business was very slack. The Rents rose 10c. for cash, and finished et yesterday's price for amount, closing at 72ir. 75c. and 73fr. 26c. Credit Fonder took a sudden start acd rose 32fr. 500. Credit Mobilier fell 21r. 60c. In railways there was scarcely a change of a franc or two. General Baron Subervie, who was Minister at War under the Provisional Government, has just died at his chateau in the Gironde, aged 84. THE CONFERENCES. The Prussian plenipotentiaries are expected to take part la the oesferenres early nest week. Bares aka teuffel and Baron Ihtsfoldt, the Primal= Minister of Formica Affairs and tee Preaeies =labor at Paris, are of coarse the personages deals meted to represent their sovereign ea this (melon. In roferelog to this setject fa the HOW of Commons last night Lord Palmosetors raid: "It had been eoes:dered that as the sego Aations thoeld proceed, sad iw properilort am there should be any reams to cord that duty satgAt geminate inn satisfactory monster, that Prussia should be invited, not to negotiate the treaty, bat to accede ' to the result of the negotiation. An levitation for that par ' pose had bees addresses to the Prussian government, and I be presumed it would be, or had already bees, tempted. That Beres Itauteeffel was then at Paris be very much doubted—he believed be bad rot even yet loft Berlin ; but he would naturally go to Pais and jsin M. Hatsieldt at that court." The Paris papers publish a despatch from Berlin, Mating that Count Or'off has made known at St. Petersburg that a &Baits undantanding has been coma t, on the filto point, and that peace is @mute 1. Borne spacial deliberations, which ere to take place between Russia and Turkey, have bees unread. AMERICA: THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Extract of a letter from New York, dated Feb. 28 : The presidential campaign has commenced ; the present minister for the Unite] States in London will pro bably be the nominee of the democratic ritety, and will most likely be elected also. He is a unwritten of considerable abilities and coneisteney. The greatest thirg sgaiost him, with many. is his being a party to the (Mend convention. Prapident Pierce @till eapects to be re-elected, bet I cannot believe that possible suer the ezbibittoo of himself which he hes made while in office. By the Know-Nothing party Mr. en-President Fillmore has been alresey nominated. He is a very respectable min, of good sdministntive ability ; but the party who hays taken him up are rot strong anima to carry the election—the Whip are likely to join in sappoeting Mr. Fillmore. So far as we can antici pate, the trial of strength at the election will be between Mr. Buchanan and hlr.F.llmore there will. however, pro bably be at least one other candidate. We have bad an uuuuu Ily long and severe winter in this country generally; a heavy snowstorm this week, with 18 inehtessow standing all the winter on the high gritted near as. THE PENINSLLAR MAILS. (11T ZLICTRIO TILIGRAPIL SOUTHAMPTON, SAIVRDAT Momenta. The Madrid has wired with Peninsular mail., having left Lisbon on the 9h. Amongst her paean. gen is Priem Charles Bonaparte. The paddle steamer Emperor was wrecked at Calite. The Regis, of Scarborough, has beta wrecked off Fero. Exchange at Lisbon on London, Mi. NAVAL AND MILITARY. In compliance with her Majesty's royal warrant, the following are the rules and regulations for grant. Lug a fixed slim of money in lien of pensions, com passionate allowances, and gratuities to widow', families, and relatives of officers killed in action, or dying of wounds received in face of the enemy within slit months after being wounded:— 1. The amount of money to be paid to a widow, widow and children, or other relatives of an bilker killed in action, or dying of wounds received in face of the enemy within 11t months after heir et wounded, the% W'tatever breech of the service he may bare belonged to, be the regal ,Lion price axed for commissions in cavalry and iufnatry of the line, se set forth in the f Anwing wale, viz. :—To tne widow, widow sad chill/en, father, mother, sister or sisters, of Cavary. Infantry. Lieutenant-Colonel £6, 175 .... £4,600 Major 4,676 ..•. 3, 2 00 Captain Liesteeaut Comet Ensign But it shall in no ease exceed the sum of money actually paid, in conformity with the regulation pries, by the officer for the parttime@ of his oommission or commissions. 2. When an officer so killed, cr so dying of his wounds within sin months, chill leave a widow only, the sum thus fixed shall b 3 paid her 'or her sole and absolute benefit, provided she be not left in such pecuniary circumstances as would otherwise preclude a I claim to a pension ; and she shall be required t 3 establish her claim, and to sign l en acknowledgment of having closented to receive 'lnch sum in lieu thereof, and as a full c .mpeasatinn ter all pen sion and gratuity to wh , ch she may or mi,tht have proved herself entitled in conseqeenco of the 1 isa of her husband, arc irdieg to the forms prescribed by the Secretary of State f i or d ma r, and described in the Appsodin as forma 10, 16, l _ _ the event of en officer hairier; a widow end chil dren, who may or mirth: have e•tablished a claim ti the pension, compassionate allowance, or a utility,' then in that ease the money awarded in lieu thereof shell be held in trust by the Secretary Stow for Wr, and the interest thereof', at the rate of 31. per cent. per annum, shell be receivable by the widow until her death, when the money shall he divided then and there alike among the children then olive of such deemed offlaer, provided they shall have attained the age of 21, othetwiu the money shall still con tuse to be held in trust, and the interest applied for their benefit ep to that age. in the event, h,wever, of the widow surviving her said children, the money shall then become her sole and absolute property, as laid down in Article 2; hut should such caildren survive the widow, but shall die before attaining the age of 21, then, and in that cue, the moue,, after diacbarging all just liabilities, alma become the property cf the Crown. 4. In the event of an officer leaving a child or children, but no widow, the money shat) be held in trust, and the interest ther eof, et the rate of3l. per unwell per annum, as stated in Article 3, shell he am lied by toe Secretary of State for War for the benefit of such child or children, until he, she, or they shall attain the are of twenty-one, when the money, a. in the case of the widow, at alt become the Ono lute property of such surviving child or children, there and share alas. Should, however, such child or children die before attaining the age of 21 years, then and in that case the money, atter discharging all just liabilities, shall be come .he property of the cr 6. In the widow, child, nor children, then the money shall be paid to his father; and, if he leave no fa her, it may be paid to his mother, for his or her ado and alt., lute benefit, provided that he or she shall establish a claim thereto, aicoroing to the farms described in the Appendix, as toe cue may be. And, in the mot of there being %dither father nor mother, then the money shall be paid to the sister or sisters, as the case may be, "bare and share alike, prodded they shill hare attained the age of 21 years, a id that their claim shall be established wording to the forms described la the Appendix, as forms 13, 16, and E., or forms 14, 15, and F, as the case may be. But should any eider 1r *i•t1.111 be under that age, the money sha;l be bed in trust by the Secretary of State for War, and the interest be a; Vied, se rated in Article 4, until such lists r or sisters shall br c ime 21 years of age, when it shall become the abs , lute priperty of the survivor or SUIVi•O•P. Should no eurvivo , or survivors! attain the age e f 21 years, •hen the money, after dietitian- Mg ell just buntline', shall bac dne the lroiert, of the Crown. 6. No milt of money under the provisions of this war rant shall be made ti any person who would not be eligible for pension, c assionate allowance, or la twit. nadir the prov:Xotts of the royal w reset of June, 15, 18,56 (a father ' alone excepted, whose claim mut be established es lot forth in ♦rticle 6); but t to ineligibility of a widow to any grant under this w srr .nt shall no• &ff. a the interests of , he legitimate child or ch•ldn n if e d-ceused officer for whose benefit the money eh dl be told in trust, and the in. Wrest applied by the Seer Lary of Suitt for War, aa stated in Article 4, except they be left in such Fucuniery circum stances as would disqualify them for toe c uspiistionate allowances under the provivons of A r ids 3 Should, how ever, such child f r child-en die before etteiniou the age of 21, then, and in that olio), the mno• y, atter discharging all just liabilities, shall become the property of the Crown. 7. la toe evict of it bang rtpreeented and sati,fuctorilp proved to the B.cr-tary of State for War, teat any widow on whose behalf money shall be held in trust for the benefit of heiself and ail treat under the prone ons of this war• rant, shall thereafter st conduct herself as to become un aorthy of the bounty of the Crown, nr shall neglect or ill. treat her children, then, in that case the Secretary of State for War shall have full prier, tu nrikc such ursegemeate for apprrioning the itt•reat of the money and making better provision for the children as in his juagarent may wen most advisable. 8. The allowaces to be granted under the authority of this warrant are not s, pheable to the cases of officers killed in notion, or dliog of wounds bef.r, the declaration of war with Russia, hut it is • o take a retr-spective effect op to that date; and, therefore, any officer's widow to whom trete may have been grunt,d • pension, compss eionate allowances for vhirtren, or gratuity for herself sod children, or shy other re'alve of an officer who may has received a peasion under the warrant of the 15th of June, 1836, who may wish to c rormute awl psnsion, allowances. or gratuities for ,the sum fired under tne p•ovisioss of this marmot, ohs 1 be permitted to do so ; hut in that ems, whatever sums may have been received by Ir or eceoant of the widow or children or other rrl sties I, will be deducted frm any amount to be paid under the terms of this war rant. But in every cue a m,, of money being awarded under the provisions of this warrant, f• tacit thereon, at the rate of 31. per eentum per annum, will be allowed front the day of the officer's death. 9. Should the widow or sty other relative of a deceased eater, who, pri r to the 23rd r f October, 1856. bas been granted a pension sod other allo *antes tooter the prod . Coss of the warrant of •.be 16th of June, 1855, wish to ima mate ouch pension and allowances for a !lUD of money In lieu thrr, of, in coof,,rmity with the - erns of /hit w t, it will be necessary that noac.tioil to that 'flint be made to the Seeretary o' State frt. War within a year fr m the 23rd of October, 1856. And should the widow, or any other Mat ye of a deasad officer, who, piece the 23rd of Octo ber, 1866, nay hove already, or may heteafia to granted a pension and dLLuwsetee, wish to commute such tension and allowar hes for a sum of money in lieu thereof, under the provieons tf AVa warrant, it wi; I be her es=ary that appli. mien to that eff, ct he merle to the Sect, try of State for Wer within • Tear from the date of the said prnsions and other allowances being granted. 10. A return of rli sums paid under the prcv:sioes of this walnut et a'l b • lard snots/illy before Parliament on Of after the I.t of April. Given at our Court at St James's, the let day of Muck, 1866, ia the 19 h y, ar of war reign. By Her Majesty's command, PANYCZI. THE CRIMEAN COMMISSION AND REPORT.—MSJOE Genies! S r Richard Ailey, Quartermaster General to Forces, has been for the last three weeks preparing hls answer to the charges contained in the Crimson report of Sir John McNelf and Colonel Tul.ocb. Hen assisted ia his Jai orit•us work by Serj. ant Kingelsite, Quern's Counsel, Mr. T. weer, Fe ocitcr, Colonel Steele, Coldstreana Guards, Aids-le-Camp to the Queen, and hl.l r Hackett. Major-General the Earl' f Card.gan has ' , night the mist• once of Mr. Seer] ant Merits ther in ptomain his atte MCC to the charges co,tained in the Crmisan Com• minimum' rip rt. The Firld Martial Commanding•ino Chief has directed that several of the cfficere who are 0111 leave cf absence in England, from the Crimes, shall not return to the East until the betaking up of the Crimean Bond of General Officers.— United S4ftiCe Gcael:e. ADIRRALTT, MARCH 14,—APPOINTYINTS.—Liteteleht W. Lombard (1010). to the ttelleisle, G, boa' Mot ship, at L.erouport. Indauproan J. J. Gtenory, to the Bob, 21. screw Amin corvette, et BALTIC 1341-LbcRTTneIPRS power, Tli tBlleemaP lt • TIC FLEIT.—L&orra for the Bri tish Beet In the (Sauk, w ill, he the present, Ae forw.rded earl. rim Ostend mid Kiel. Mails will also be made up on the departure of ships of war or vessels In the screw of her Majeaty. The letters of rem onmitmol, 'loco meettakined, r ,scant °Wren, as well as thaw cf soldiers and marten, forwarded rim t}o sod lout Kiel. will he liable to • combined Brinell and Ayala rate nt plates* of St. when not ex ceeding a quarter of m macre. ad. whew ,ace" iliac a queh r and mot exceeding half en ounce, and se on, Increarleta three can for every quarter of an ounce. The same Tate 0' threepence par quarter of an ounce will he charm-able upon letters of coutotisaloued or warrant ofncere, conveyed by Quo n's chip, or t anerairtn, but the letters el soldiers sod reamen may he sent by there moot. iv the reduced rate of oe penny, when nut erceechey half an movie in weight. In all ems, the pas:age must by lAA t on advance, r the letters will not be forwarded. Nerratrysers cannot he Witt by the rote,' of Het. became the srfangemmte of the Intuieh Pain Oh, do not stow ot the foreign pelage, to welch timer newepapers would be ho him collected to the United Kingdom. 1 hey would, therelote, he detutued at KW until that postage war paid. Ifs rewel. of war. bo..ncr, pertly ern, niwapaperawil be forwarded to the Hattie ct at a charge of 006 teary 'web, which 1.1,46 - old. By commen d of the Poet. encvfer. , :evevd. Iluwiavan Btu, !Monetary.- OeoctaL Pcow#Boo, Wank 11, 1130. THE AQUEDUCT OF SEBASTOPOL bed (*aged to t e t t. . •k hop .e., Noon top by our eilitineirs. Tee aura or gr.o .yo. tort If S b.siopul u• eght miles is length. It. w h i h w • . t fr. t . . 1 i t . e , ein d ep th es's* fast sad a hAlL—Molilinw do Floats. I 1