The Express. — London, England, 1858-03-08 00:00:00

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I. o. gi 017111 MT. Thiamin*. TIIII AIWA& Wawa Onmiii sad • Ines 0•61M-TEI I TWO POUTS. *MIL limn norm lan OILMAN Or OLILMCOII. Mom ~r►Mier;Yr M. fir.-Omiimi ei *Wpm S. ILION NAT= AT LONDON NALDON 11= 0. 21= t t .A.lWorm. TIL //ka. .Aansesa. lb. 4.1... LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 8. Axon° the subjects which engaged the attention et tae Cesanissionees in their inquiry into the thni- tar? Coaditioa of the Army, was the very important one of the education and qttalitleatione demanded of candidate', for the appointment of Amietant-Surgeen. The country has a right to expect that the necessary awesome will be taken to secure ample, immediate, and skilled assistance to the soldier when wounded by the enemy while fighting his country's battles, or when struck down, as is shown by this Report to be much more frequently the ease, by the band of disease. In many of the Continental armies young men are educated at the expense of Govern. meat for this department of the profession, means being taken to secure from them in return a certain number of years of service before they are permitted to retire from the Army. But this country, in accordant* with its free-trade prin ciples, leaves to private enterprise the education of the Medical Ofiloers. Candidates are required to produce evidence of having good through a certain course of study, and to be possessed of • surgical diploma. As, however, the attainments implied by the latter vary according to the College from which it 'hes been obtained—the diploma of London, for example, not necessarily involving any knowledge of Materia Medics, Chemistry, or Practice of Physio— the candidates undergo an examination at the Army Medical Board, with a view to obtain, as far as possible, uniformity in their acquirements. These examinations are conducted by the Director- General and two or three of the Medical Mows attached to his office; they are spoken of in a dis paraging tool by alt the witnesses, except of mune Dr. Sum himself. Examining is an art, and one requiring great practice, and it is no disparagement tO the army medical officers, who are constantly oc • espied with their professional duties, to my, that they are not so well qualified to ascertain the acquire meets of candidates as men who are daily teaching mad examining students, and who are compelled to keep themselves up in theirknewledge of the various Wenches they teach. " Unice' he is Ilkewies a " teacher," my the Commissioners, " the Examiner is " seldom perfectly efficient." When the candidates have passed this examina tion they are sent to Fort Pitt, where they undergo an additional test by being placed in charge of rick, and their capabilitiee are reported on by the chief Medical Officer. Bat this can be of little value, as Dr. Stunt stated that be did not recollect any one being rejected there on account of deficiency of professional knowledge. They are, however, prao tically instructed in the application of bandages, and are required to make themselves acquainted with the regulations of the service and the mode of com piling the returns which are required from regi mental medical officers. As the period of their stay at Fort Pitt, however, is not fixed by regulation, but depends on the exigencies of the service, the amount of instruction there given them must vary greatly. It does not appear that the can. didate• receive any instructioo M the spiral ties of military medical practice, or in the appli cation of sanitary science to the preservation of the soldier's health in the various and peculiar circum stances in which he is often placed. This know ledge must, therefore, be too often acquired at the expense of the soldier. Who can tell how mach safferieg, nay, how mach loss of life, might be averted by a coarse of instruction in these branches ? It is true there are in Edinburgh and Dublin Professor ships of Military Surgery, but the concurrent testi mony of the witnesses examined as to their utility was, that if not positively injurious, they aro at least of so vale*. With • view to remedy the defects above noticed, end to ensure each an amount of knowledge and efilciency is the Medical Officers of the Army as the country has a right to expect shall be secured for the benefit of the soldier, the Commissioners have recommended that • medical qualification be required, ea well as a surgical ; that a practical and competitive examination be made the mean. of ad mission into the service ; and that a special Board of Examiners, similar to that now employed by the Foot India Company, and unconnected with the Army Medical Board, be appointed to conduct it. They deo recommend tie formation, at Motley, of a Belied el Military Medicine and Surgery, to which all candidates shall be sent for six months, under the title of Probatiosera, after parniog their examine hoo, with a view to their being instructed in the specialties of military practise. At the end of that period they must merge a mood examination, to show that they have made an adequate use of the oppor falsities thus afforded of acquiring knowledge and of qualifying themselves far their &tore career. t#rsi are the important, and it opposes Se es premien and juoicioom, suggentiona for the improvement a ass Medical Corfu. The Coomieeicnters have tie waft of beginning at the right sad, and the remile we trust, be commensurate with our expectiviellni THE following is an extract from a private letter of an officer in °tide, and may serve to ►how tin people of this country that Sir Cotix CA it rnitu. hen still an arduous task to perform, and th►t a strew of reinforcement@ should be kept up to maintain atranith of his tomes. Ws understand that the, Goveamoa-OENEEA L hinsaelf wrifal in anYtaing Ulf & linguine strain. Sir Cott@ CextitXl4 Wei expeeemi to arrive at Cawupore with his doge train About the •I ••••• •-• • I Bth or 10th of February ; and thenarouoaa fear that he would have to advance uloon taeknoir with only 12,000 Europeans: " °fl ken' Hospital. Oairtipero, Jas. 16. " These is much work still to be done in India, and I fear the force at present in the country is scarcely adequate to the task. The paucity of troops delays our operations, and every day's delay gives fresh confidence to the enemy. Where are the 40,000 fresh troops that were to hays arrived in the country by December ? everybody is asking. They come dribbling in, but the work to be done ought to be done quickly and effectually. Quickly, it cannot be done, unless a little more alertness is shown by the lune authorities; effectually it never will be dean if they keep on indulging that idle and child ish idea that at the end of every siege the mutiny is araelied. This is what they said at the fall of Delhi, now nearly four months ago. They repeated the tattering and soothing assertion again at the relief of the garrison in Lucknow by Havelock's fore*, which itself became part of the beleaguered garrison; and I imppose the Times will want again to perms& you, with their misapplied eloquence, that at the wooed retied of the then starving garrison by Sir Colin Campbell, the long-delayed time had at length arrived—that England's new deliverer, in the person of our Scotch hero, would really do the work in style, walk triumph antly through the streets of that immense city, colours flying and bands playing, the native popu lation and soldiery cringing at the conqueror's feet, with innumerable petitions for pardon and grace ; that the old Queen-Mother, her pride bumbled and her boast of the extermination of the English falai- fled, would open her palace gates to the gallant little band, and hail their brave leader ae the lord and master of her vast dominions; that with Sir CoHa's entry into Lucknow the mutiny would be finally crashed and rebellion trodden oat, sad that henceforth peace and tran- Trinity would reign. Why ' lay such flattering unction' to their souls ? Far better were it that the news should nes its able pen in calling attention to the true magnitude of the war we are engaged in, and calculate the strength and TOSOOIIIIII and peculiar circumstances of our enemy. It is now nearly a twelvemonth ego that the Indian government first began to see that all was not as it should be. Re peated conflagr►tions in the Sepoys' lines, cutting of the telegraph wire, burning of officers' bungalows, first warned them of the mutiny which was about to take place and make the whole world recoil with disgust at the unheard-of atrocities it brought in its train. In May, the fighting first commenced, and from that time to this the flame of rebellion has been spreading till the while country has become ignited with it. Little bands of English have been called upon to hold their own against overpowering numbers of men, from whom no mercy, but rather the most lingering death that a savage mind could in vent, most be expected; and nobly have they done, and still continue to do, their Mak. But there is much desperate fighting still in store. These men know well they are fighting with halters round their necks, and there are but two alternatives left—to die like hairline, or to be hanged like a felon or shot like dogs. It I. easy to mss which they would prefer. There are still NOM 100,000 fighting men, of whom some 50,000 are, I fancy, Sepoys, regular and irregular, whom we have still to dia pose of. Is it to be supposed that thee. men will tamely lay down their arms when they know the fate in store for them ? And is it likely, on the other hand, that we should offer pardon or anything but . . unconditional surrender, to the murderers of our countrywomen and children ? Bo we are fighting with a mutual understanding : no quarter to fighting men. It is true, most of these, in fact all, are beaten troops, andou such, disheartened and even more disorganised than they were at first t but still, u long as they have powder and shot, and food and trenches to sit in and brick walls to fire from, they will be, to a eertain extent, a formidable enemy, and it will not be so easy a task as the Times considers to lash these ruffians into obedience, or sweep them from the face of the earth as a foul blot on humanity. What, after all, are 40,000 men to spread over a vast country like this, convulsed throughout with the same shock? and how few remain united of this scattered force to conquer a country like (hide, whose whole population is inimical to our rules It will be done, like everything England undertakes, under God's blessing, but not in each a way as to preserve her prestige, unless prompt and energetic support is given from home. Already we have as oepted assistance from some native chiefs, a proceed ing which, however politic mad useful in one sense, will not improve the moral weight of our authority." THE STAFF COLLEGE EXAMINATIONS. The following has bees transmitted to us for pub lication. It would have been more satisfactory to learn that the names of all the candidates, with the number of marks obtained by each, were to be pub lished: " The reason why fifteen students only were ad mitted into the Staff College at the recent examima tion wu, that there were only fifteen vacancies. The Horse Guards' Memorandum of 17th Dec., 1837, containing the regulations of the Staff College, stated that the name of the " Senior Department of the it. M. College at Sandhurst' was to be changed to that of " Staff College," which would consist at first of thirty students. At the date of this Memo- randum the Senior Department already contained fifteen students. These students, as a matter of course, became a portion of the Staff College, in which, therefor., there remained onl fifteen places to be filled up at the date of the re ce n t' examination." Mit. HODGE AT OZTIOA.—A letter ham Turin new that Hr. Hodge reelable in canfinausent, but la per well treated, sad Ia allowed everything he wiles for, sad also to ate hie friend& He wee sapastated with Orsini, sad had letter d introdeetioa trots hka. It is to be !smog that areptaintance with Orsial does mot amsemaily, soma la Preach eyes. involve participation la or svou coguismatas of the plan to murder ohs Emperor Napoleon. The Fresh polies, however, ia just now in such • morbid state of Wad that It may poribly take lb. Is.. rational view of the neater, bet the French govenunrat will doultelees beton to ransom. " My belief is," asys the oorrespondeat, .` that It will probehly be found that Mr. Hodge, who It appears is of yeepeotahls 001111811{0011 sad a way circumstances. is • yosag mem d rather belted view,, and perhaps set wry ergbead* bet that Its bad nothing tri ge with drin Z . Ns bed sew habit Wbkil floribily le not bet ale aarpireier ;he kept • May, In whisk he bled doss everything he did, orb to his meat sebbe eel= and to its perelie ebe esereitted bupeasaiam• Hs Is ef a etnespelve = hal eenla sufficiently sweat kr lb mom et lftee, WWIa be wee dist " inquired " hr. lb ins eel to be hurt bin, for, when the busby wee made, be nee en bib war le Genet as a pedeetriaa. On his anent at the as bebr i tiee IfieraLr found, wee es Wee et beredinelea his by but which waft. I amdlorshaml, sere ands nte.enl en et seature emprembe tbe bear. Kr. 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Her Majesty and the Prince Consort walked ont yesterday. The Rev. Mr. Tarter end Mr. Mho had the basest of ►eing invited to dinner. MARCII 7. Prince Mtred arrived at Osborne from Alverbank yester day, attended by Lieutenant Cowell. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the youthful menbles of the royal heady, will, s000rd• b. to present arrsegsmeits, rears M Bethinghast Palatal, from Osborne, on Nasky east _ _ Their Royal Highnesses the Doke and Duchess d'Amnale returned to Twickenham on Friday Mat, from visiting the Baron and Baroness Meyer de Rothschild, at Mantroore, Bucks. Hie Excellency the Turkish Ambassador is con fined to the mitigate et the Embassy with e very severs told. The Doke of Leeds has left the Clarendon for Hanby Coot* wrap Catioick, Yorkshire. The Earl and Countess Granville were honoured by the 000apany of their Royal Highnesses the Dachau of Canthridp, the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge, at dhaser, on Saturday evening. A select party were puma to meet the illustrious guests. The Earl and Countess Grey left town on Satan day, oa a visit to the Counter Dowager of Ellesmere, at Ratchford Howe, near Cobbew. The Earl and Countess of Sandwich intend to Worn to town In a few days, from Hinchingbroks How, Huntingdonshire. The Earl of Lnean left town a few days aline for Ireland. Lord Stanley of Alderley leaved" town to-day for Alderley Pub, Cheshire. The Count and Countess Renard have arrived at the Claroodoa, from Paris. The Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington, Bart, the First Lard of the AdatireJty, returned to town on Saturday, from Droiterich. The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli left town on Satazday saamoon, for Hagtudarke Mawr. Lady Moleoworth entertained a select circle at climber last evening. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury re ceived the Duke of Wellington, the Earl sad Countess of Marred= and Lady Constance VWlers, the Berl of Car manna, the Countess°, Caledes, Viscount Chelsea, Vainest sad Viscounts* lugestre, Lord sad lady Hmy Vane, Lady William Russell, Sir William O. H. Zolllffs, Xr. Arthur Ruse 1, and a idea pasty, at diaper on Saturday, at the fatally mansion In Arthsgtaa-streat. The Marquis of Lansdowne entertained his Ex cellency the Belgian Minister and Mar Law Visa de Weyer, the Berl and Counters of Shelburne, Lord and Lady Wensley dale., Lord Gimelg, the Right Hon. Hr Benjamin Hall, Sir William renirlok Williams, Sir John Shaw totem, the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, Hon. Charles Howard, Count Yarolyi, and a salad party, at dinner on Saturday, at Lans downe Howse. The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and Mr. G. 0. Harem" Leda dinner party on Saturday, at their residesee is Carina-gardens. The Duke sad Duchess d'Austals, the Duke of Argyll, his Excellency the Prussian Minister sad the Countess Bernetorff, the Earl Stanhope, the Earl and Counter of Shaftesbury, Viscount sail Viscountess Meignad, Viscosities* Stradord ds Redelith, the Right Hon. the Speaker and Lady Market* Deaira r the Right Ron. W. E. Gladstone, Mr. C. °Tern* Madame Codln, sad Mrs. Malcolm were of the pry. The Earl and Countess Granville were honoured by the company of their Royal Big Menses the Duchess of Cambridp and the Princess Mary at dinner on Saturday, at their mansion is Bruton-etrest. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel the Hon James bisedoeald, sad a dis tinguished *el., were present to meet the illustrious guests et the noble earl and countess. Visoountese Palmerston had an assembly at Cam bridge Houma, Piccadilly, ea Amerada night. Previously the noble viscount and viscountess entertained at dinner, the Duchess of Inverness, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanrioarde, the Marchiooess (Maria) of Ailesbury, the Earl and Counts= of Bemborough, Lord Duakellin, Lord Pon snare, Lady Victoria Ashley and Hon. Evelyn Ashley, the Right, lion. H. end Mrs. Fitzroy, the Right Hon. Air Charles end Lady Mary Wood, Sir J. Ramsdell and Lady Mary Vyarr. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel the Hon. Jae. Macdonald, boaoared her ladyship by his company at the evening party, the Roy& Duke having coma from the Earl and Countries Granville's. The Dab rewired shortly before twelve o'clock. Her lady matins wes very rauseronely attended. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood. Board of Admiralty will close their official boil am at Whitehall to day, and to-morrow the new board, under •the presidency of the Bight Hon. Sir John Pakington, will take their seats. 81r John Pakingtott, M.P., let; Vice• Admiral W. F. Mar tin, bd; Vice-Admiral Sir ft. 8. Dundee, , 3rd; Beer-Admiral Mane, 4th ; Captain the Has. J. R. Drum mond, C. 8., 6th; Lord Loraine, M.P., Mi; First Secre tary, the Right Hon. H. T. 1.. Garry, M.P. ; Second Be. artery, W. G. Romaine, Esq., C.B. ; Private Secretary to the First Lord, Albert Murray, Esq. Arrangements for the appointment of the Soli citor-General for Ireland have not been fluidly made. Mr. 8. Fitsgereld has declined the offer made to him by Lord Eglinton, not wishing to go into parliament. It is sup posed that Mr. Lefty will succeed Mr. Napier as member for the university.—Herala. A correspondence from Milan in the Opinions says that the Archduke M►ximilian, who had flattered him self that b• warn winning hearts end breaking down Lombard antipathy to Austrian rule, has discovered that he wee mis takes, that the adhesioas ha had obtained were the result of premiere, and that the few Italians who had placed them selves among his courtiers were scouted and eves Mantled by their countrymen. "xis political campaign," says the eor respondent, "conducted with so much expense and activity, has proved a complete Wars, end the prince does not eon real his displeasure, while the court clique inveighs ageing the adverse party, and talks of severe useentree." TIM WESTMINSTER ABBET SERVICES.—The annouseentet that a Scotch bishop would preach at Wepmieetse Abbey last night drew together one of the largest easgragations which has ever assembled on the axe sloe of the special services. Pull choral service wee pe.- brad. the prayers being said by the Rev. J. C. Haden, the emcee or; and the lessons read by the Very Rev. Dr. Cbonevir Trench, Dean of Weetretneer. The preacher was the Right Rev. Dr. Charles Wordsworth, Bishop of St. Andrew's, and brother of Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, a mean of Westminster, sal formerly master of literrow School. The service throughout was beautifully given, the chairing being under the direction of the Rev. Thomas Elmore, M.A., of her Majesty's Chapel Royal. The memos was eloquent and very long—not a very deeituble uglification, wandering the Intense cold which prevailed yrwaghnst the abbey, and which kept the congregation in • shiver during upwards f two hours. CLASSICAL AND LNGAL EXAMINATION 01 , ARTACLIBD CLERIC—The Incorporated Law Society have for same time had under their allillideESSlOß the subject of aiming sad legal exaruleationa of articled clerks to attorneys art whites. The report of a aosaitlsa appoiated by the misty Ito *again int* the euteeot bee recently been mad., awn mews that tbey ogres gawarelly that opportunities should hoi Warden ta 1/811ds11. be admission as attorneys and soli clam to awe their baying passed aa sxmaisation, Or other wise that thew Itawnebasinsoi a oampOoet knowledge to am ides, and ether torwashas of • liberal donation, eier before or *orbs the articles of clerk-hip, or before admission as aritararpe ov solicitors. They are of opinion, however, that the wahmiesisa to such test or examination ohcedd be volun tary ea the part of ohs candidey yet that the passing or an deeplai it with credit shall entitle him to honours or some other distinolion. A memorial to the various common law n tera, embodying the above suggestions, has bees prepared pes=dof by the committee; bet before its presseta emppet that it should be satowtained in whet man sr mob seaminelions can be coemniestly effected both in Mae god In the provinces, sad whether co of the inem Livia, paged each emeniaation, rot bar ing hem noldoehd will credit to some Moteguiveleat are beoolialowil hoe say public or estaltiohed sad hal we aninseitiee ; sail wish that the own untiems oesemonsa dot latekiee es rtes meltleat view should he mode d*. aseeral anitveddie and maws ea weasel than and death pigs and other etaieeet enbath and into- Mimi ban at nor beappreand ad A mean af the Mil at the lateeppeined haw liseiety ham beat ISMININIPi, sad will head/ in the owe of a day ar two. to etwaidlir the re ," d 4 111401.1i16111,40 the tatenortek ead geserally to da o:N ea the meet aivhabia steps to he taw I. the matter. Th e objeetttf r ad ebtostire is at the Terra 111001110 t duno , sidiattention in the prellswien. waßgss teROM t'Altl?'. PINK ova OWN 001111111PONDINT.) _ PARIS, SUNDAY EYININO. This afternoon, thrr court carrier' were sent from the Tuileries 4 the Hotel da Leahy*, to fetch the ambassadors from the two Kings of Siam, who were received in state by the Emperor. Prince Maharaja Dhuleep Sing, ex-King of La. bore, has arrived at the Hotel du Louvre. It was by mistake that several of the French papers announced the presence of Ferukh-Khan, the Persian Ambassador, at the funeral of Prince Mina of Oade. it. arrived at Vienna from Italy on March 3. His uncle, Mires Zaman Khan, accom panied by several attaelds of the Persian Embassy, paid a visit yesterday to the young Prince Moham mad Hamid My Mina, at the Hotel Laffitte. The prince goes to London to-morrow to continue to prosecute his claims for the restitution of the king dom of Gads. Since the death of his uncle he has assumed the title of Iskeader-hichmet, which two words signify, we ate told, " he whose pomp and magnificence is equal to that of Alexander the Great." The new Minister of the Interior does not, it appears, desire is claim credit for all the measures due to his zeal and activity. The Biiele yesterday contained an advertisement informing its readers that its permission to be sold in the streets " having been withdrawn by as Minister of the Interior," numbers of the journal might be bought at certain places therein mentioned. The wording of this announcement has been changed by authority, and in the Slide of this day, the allusion to the minister is replaced by the vague averment that the Sad* " cannot any longer be sold in the streets"—the public being left to guess the reason why. A letter from Eituttgardt of March 2, mays : The father of the inventor of the fulminating shells which were used on Janeery 14 hie been interrogated by the police. Hie amplanatione were so estietaistory that it was not thought necessary to sand for the inventor himself, who is a native of Stuttgardt, but now living in another town, where he car ries at the bode of a mover sad gilder. The shale were sold at Carlaruhe, during the Crimean war, to • foreigner who gave himself out as an armorer, and the inventor little thought of the use to which they WON to be put. It might be thought from the above paragraph that the shells sold at Carlsruhe were the identical ones used by Orsini and his accomplices, but these, R e know, were made at Birmingham. M. Gastineau, the editor of the Guetteur de St. Quentin, a journal of Republican tendencies, has been arrested. As he belongs to the category of persons formerly charged with political offences, to whom the new law of " public safety " applies, it is probable that he will be summarily dealt with u an " expectant." A Piedmonts's, named Bono, a ticket porter at Lyons, was tried by the Assize Court of the Rhone, on Thursday, for au attempt to murder by means of an infernal machine. Having • grudge against another porter, named La Chapelle, he sent a box to his lodgings directed to him. Chapelle and his wife fancying that the box contained presents for their children, hammed to open it 'with great glee, but no sooner was the key (which was fastened outside by a string) put into the keyhole than the box bunt with a loud ex plosion, and one of the children was wounded in the face. Bozzo had placed in the box two loaded pistols, the triggers of • hich he had tied to the bolt of the lock, calculating that as soon as it was turned both would go off. One only did go off in point of fact, u it happened, and, fortunately the wounds received by the child were not serious. It was, however, proved that the pistols were loaded in • most deadly sinner. Bozzo was found guilty, and sentenced to bard labour for life. The plan of building a monster theatre on the ground between the Quai de Givres, the Place du , Chitelet, and the Avenue Victoria, which was to have been called the Theatre do People, is aban doned. The municipality, to whom the ground belonged, has rescinded the contract with MM. Place and Dennoy, by mutual consent. Ordinary houses will now be built upon the site. M. Outlet, the landlord of Meurice's Hotel, died yesterday. - PARIS, KeruanAT Ewrrn•, At the Bourse the Rente, after having been languishing during the greater part of the day, became very firm at the close, in consequence of a report that the negotiations which have been going on all the week between France and England had taken a favourable turn. Some people affirmed positively that the English note in answer to Count Walewaki's despatch would arrive in Paris on Mon day. A good many considerable purehases were made, and the Rente closed with a rise of 10c., both for cash and account, at 69 10 and 69.26. Mobilier, after some fluctuation, left off firm at yesterday's price. The railways fell in the morning, and although the market afterwards improved con siderably they did not altogether recover their lost ground. Orleans left off with a fall of 10f., Western 6, and Northern 1.25. Lyons, however, rose 5, Southern. 7.50, and Eastern 2.60. The Credit Foncier Company has given notice that it reduces from the Ist March to 4 per cent. the interest on all advances which it makes on its own bonds. Orsini has received permission to write to his Slimily, and also to have an interview with his sister, who is expected in Paris this evening. The Procureur-General has, I am informed, trans mitted to M. Bollard, a French advocate residing in Loudon, a quantity of additional evidence against Bernard and Allsop, with a request that ha will make it known in the proper quarter. The Marquis de Pidal, the newly-appointed Spa nish ambassador to the Court of Rome, arrived in Paris yesterday with his suite, en rouge for his post. Tbs Univers, which doubtless has the best infor mation on such matters, says that the number of converts to popery in England within the last few years includes three duchesses, one marchioness, two oountesses, eight right houourable ladies (sic.), ten baronets, two archdeacons, eighty-five clergymen, and two hundred and seventy-two distinguished members of the aristocracy. In order to enhance the value of these conversions, the organ of the jesuits observes that " titles in England are not usurped by the prosier uric, u they are in France. They are, therefore, real countesses sod viscountesses wbo have quitted the established church, and in curred the displeasure of their Queen for conscience sake." ITALY. THE ENGLISH ENGINEERS IMPRISONED IN NAPLES. (71011 0171 •WX SALERNO, MARCH 2. About five years sins a steamer belonging to Palmer and Co., of Jarrow, left port for London in the afternoon of a fine day. Not many hours after wards she foundered about Berea miles off Whitby. The Countess of Strathmore wag the name of the steamer, and all her crew would have been lost had not a small vessel, called a " billy boy " in technical language, been passing near. The crew w ere at tached to ropes, and thus drag ged through the raging sea on the " billy boy, " and all except the captain, the mate, and two men, were saved. One of those men whilst weeping, aed lamenting his c: g n r was reproached, and esoo nrage d b y an e l to remember that he had the same chance of safety u any of the others. There remained at Lit one only man—this engineer, fear`ess and an shaken in nerve. The steamer was settling down, and the little boat with the remaining part of the crew bad again to make a complete round before it amid throw another rope on beard. In the interval, this men had the coolness to go below and save boa watch, and had just time on corning on board to catch the rope as it was thrown to him. Thug he •.~ ` 1858. was dragged through thalempestuous sea, and res- IMed,from death pia: 4 ol3ly a cut over his face Ohio% I have 'Wen), from coming in eon tact with the vessel. That man's name was 'leery Watt. Shipwreck shook not his nerves ; the near approach if death did not throw his mind off its balance ; and yet he is now of unsound intel lect, the inmate of an hospital, of whom it has just been reported that it would be injurious and dan gerous to compel his attendance in a court of justice. That report is just about to be read to the Grand Criminal (hurt; but before it is, and until some de cision has been come to, let as ask what has occa sioned the difference between the present and the past of Henry Watt ? Is the answer to the qttestion difficult, after the details which have been illreidy made known ? Conscious of innocence, and yet im prisoned for now full eight months; pronounced even by a British minister in his place in parliament to be virtually innocent, and yet with marvellous indifference left to the tender mercies of Neapolitan justice ; is it to be wondered at that a right-minded man should become irritated ? Add to these causes of excitement all the circumstances of the imprison ment acting upon both mind and body, and the question is abundantly answered. What has occa sioned the difference between the present and the put of Henry Watt ? I have seen much of his brother since he has been in Naples, and have made many inquiries as to his recollections of the past, and his impressions of his actual state. " Henry," be says, " was always a man of remarkably strong mind, sober, industrious, and truthful in a very high de gree. On my honour, I now find him to be of unsound mind. He becomes melancholy and talks to himself if left alone a little ; and a rapid move ment of the head, and a quivering in the eye, indicate that his mind is wavering." To sa y . tha t he has fallen into this state because he was originally of a weak mind would be contrary to the facts, as 1 have already shown. There must, therefore, have been some great and sufficient MUMS for it in the facts of ' his arrest and imprisonment. Yet Lord Clarendon, in a speech which has made England fall 60 per cent, in the estimation of Italians, said that Watt and Park were objects of envy to the Neapolitans ; the one is insane, arid the other subject to fi ts. What, then, must be the state of the Neapolitans ? " Henry," sap his brother, "is conscious of his aber ration of mind, and speaks of it. He felt his body going first. He had great pains in his back, and then his mind began to wander; and, amongst other things, he attributes his illness to the smallness of the room, which did not allow him space to move about in." Mr. Acting-Consul Barber and myself have both described that " comfort able " room from personal inspection, and at dif ferent times. The court, however, is waiting ; so it is time to be off. There are present the British acting consul, the Sardinian consul, William Watt (the brother of the victim), and myself. Five other Englishmen enter afterwards, and we are glad to see them come dawn to manifest an interest in the fate of their countrymen, for it is a rare virtue in Naples even for an Englishman to do anything which may compromise him with the government. Shame on their cowardly caution! An usher makes the round of the court in a state of agitation—he ap proaches the consul, and inquires if his Excellency knows who the strangers are. "His Excellency" does not, which is a bad sign. They may be mul tiples of Allaop or Mends of Maxxini. So a book is brought to them, and they are required to enter their names. A letter appears to be written and despatched in a hurry, and after some time an answer is appa rently brought in. Who can those suspicious Cha racters be? The President proceeds to announce that 12 prisoners were absent from illness, and ano ther has died since the last meeting—he died of con sumption ; and, judging from their appearanoe, con sumptien will , sunimon many of the men before him to the bar of Divine justice. Close prisons, bad fare, and scanty clothing are fins promoters of pulmonary disease! Park says that the wretched Neapolitans crowd ing close upon him have the scurvy ; and that an offloer, warning him to take care of infection, men tions it to the Acting Consul, and a complaint is made, and a line of separation drawn directly. There are doubtless fine elements for the scurvy . in a prison life in the Two Sidles. The real business of the day now begins. The medical reports are read, all agreeing in this conclusion, u I have informed you, that it would be injurious and dangerous to compel Watt's attendance. The Procurator-General moves, therefore, that Watt's trial be suspended ; and at the instance of Signor Laurie, the advocate for the engineers, that he be detained in the British ' Hospital on the responsibility of the consul, two advocates try to get the whole trial again suspended till some more satisfactory decision be come to re garding the health of Watt : their clients, too, felt a strong repugnance to come into court, but the mo tion of the Procurator-General is carried. Three Sardinians belonging to the Cagliari re main to hear their depositions. One of them is the fiag-bearer, a small boy of 13, called Domenico Ce4ta. He is a pretty, chubby-faced looking led, and a general smile is awakened through the 'curt as he rises. It was as a spree he carried the flag, but it was a dangerous one, for the shots were flying right and left : both his companions agree in stating that Captain Sitzia was in great despair oa his ship being taken from him, and wept. Of Daneri, the man who was com pelled to take the command of the vessel by the rebels, I must say something more. He denied that he had used any pistol, or that his family were de votedly attached to Mancini. His father had filled many offices under the Sardinian government, and was trusted by it. With Daneri concluded the ex aminstioa of the Cagliari crew. We now come to the Nespolaan subjects ; altogether, 19' of them bad their depositions reed. Of several I have no- 1 thing to say, but others made some revelations which I mast not omit to give. Rocca la Cava de clared that of a deposition which bad been read to him he knew little or nothing; it had been received and written by a person who was not in authority, and he was told that it was not too late to save his life if he would sign it. As he had seen many of his companions shot, he was afraid of being shot u well, and therefore signed it. The President, he said, had told him that it was useless to oppose signing one of his depositions—he had better sign it. On being asked if it was his wish to retract what ho had signed, he answered" Yes." The tendency of what be retracted was to compromise several pertains, and, amongst others, Baron Gallotto. Giambattista Jaceheo said that the crew bad been forced, and the captain was much displeased at the feet. On being asked, Rile vented to the deposition read, he replied that they were all got up by the police, " per farsi merito. Yon know, Signor President, bow these things are done to please the government. (General titter.) That deposition was never read to me. It was the act of' the police." " But you de clared the same things on several occasions," said the Proouratoe-General. "Then I must have been asleep, for I know nothing about them." " Have you anything more to say ? " " Yes, Signor Presi dent. After I had delivered up myself, a captain of the Rifles consigned me to a sergeant, and this man whilst taking me to the castle in Padula, amnia himself by striking me with the butt-end of his musket, by pulling my beard, and pinching me. More than this, I was robbed of everything I had. I would not have minded a few earlitu, but they rob bed me of a pound of bread and a pound of sausages, which I had bought in the morning, and nothing lett to eat." The careless, easy mode in which this man replied occasioned much mirth in court. He had been struck by an sae, he said, and was not in a state to make any deposition. Nicola Giordano confessed that he willing! joined the party of the insurgents, on hearing that had risen for the sake of Italian liberty. He be that the first ditty of a man was to his country. I pus by several whose examination was of no import une, till I come to the name of Franoseeo di Mar tino. When be made his deposition, be said that many others were being examined, and-their words were confused right and left, so that a great many errors were committed. He protested against the anueination of thirty-five of his eompanions in Paula, without provocation or amenity. Their bodies were stripped, and lay in the roads. Raffardi Parole else protested against the barbarities inflicted upon the insurgents who delivered themselves up. In Psdela thirty-five bad been butchered, He himself bad lima robbed of everything. fig a gendarme--of three Napoleons seven piastres, and eight carlini. Th ere were seve ral witnesses of the fact, and amongst others two gendarmes, called io Rosa and Bandolini. It being now four o'clock, and the court having sat since nine o'clock, the President rang his bell, and the business of the day was closed. PIEDMONT. (71011 091 OWN C0111181,7r6113179 • TURIN, )&A c 1 1. We feel not less cariosity . here than you do to know whether your new ministry will wholly adopt Lord Pabnerston's Conspiracy Bill as its own ; and upon this account our Chamber at present allows the project of law which has been laid before it, and which in its substance and object so much resembles the English bill, to lie dormant a little while. One of the seven sectional committees (bureaux) into which the Chamber is divided has not yet elected its reporter upon this question, and insists upon previously requiring the communication of all written and official documents which have passed between our government and that of France, with reference to the clime of the 14th of January. What this bureau hereby seeks to obtain is, I repeat, merely . a ground for the postponement of the measure, since its members know very well, having heard it from Count Cavour's own month, that no special note was sent by Count Walewski to our government, but only that same note was communicated to Sardinia which was also addressed to England, to Belgium, and to Swit zerland. Besides this, Count Cavour as promised to lay before the committee of the whole Chamber which will be appointed to examine this project of law, everything which has passed between him and the: French Legation regarding the late event in Paris. Two of the other bureaux. of the Chamber have elected reporters most strongly opposed to the .pro ject of law, namely Brofferio and Cotta RIMUIIII2O by two ther bureaht the law is accepted ? but with many amendments ; and lastly, the remaining two have instructed their respective reporters to remove from the law, so far as is parable, the cha racter of a restrictive measure as affecting the liberty of the press and the institution of juries. Altogether, the law, as it will issue from the discussions upon it in our Chamber, will have undergone substantial modifications ; and its ultimate fate will depend upon the course taken by your own parliament. BELGIUM. The Belgian Senate on Thursday was occupied • with the examination ,of the bill for modifying the penal code in that pert which relates to crimes com mitted or prepared in Belgium againat foreign go, vernments. The diactuision wee an animated one, but no amendment was presented. M. d'Anellit; expressed a wish to see the bill apply to crimes 000 l." mitted by Belgians in foreign countries: while M. de Selye-Longehamps spoke against any ex-clyteie prosecution as calculated to be turned into • party weapon. Eventually the bill wee adopted by 34 votes to 4. THE WEBT . INDIA MAIL. ht 11.114111 . TRLIORAPH.) (Rol OUR Owl OD/unarompa 9OUTHASIPTON, MONDAY. The Parana has arrived with the Weet India mail. She left St. Thomas's February 18. She has above two millions of dollars in specie on board. The West India Islands are generally healthy, . and the crops look well. Comonfort, the ex-presi dent of Mexico, had arrived at Vera Cruz, and was going to the United States. The revolution in Pera, is likely to terminate shortly. UNIIID SERVICE mummy. The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the meat.' ben el this society was held on Saturday, at the Initialise, Whitehall-yard ; the Right Honourable Siuxsw Hauge; la the chair.. . .. . . . . . — fie — repch wan read, stated that the embarketion for India of ort, a large port) of the army had been dissdvan. =i to the institution; bat at the same time the craned much satisfaction in abating that the pest year had been one in which more had been • done to elevate the chi. radar and confirm the stability of the es tablishment,. . . . . , No less than 176 new members - had joined the institte; tion daring the year, while the deaths and reeignatihni amounted to 164. The names of 48 tat =ben whose snlocrip. dons bad been in arrest for upwards of four years had beet removed from the list, mak ing, oa the whole a docreme is the members of 36. As to the receipts and expenditure, the racedpts had exceeded the estimate by 1751., thereby covering a deficiency of 921. The trail annual subscriptions 4m 1,2581. 45., and with a grant from government of 4001. 10 meet the heavy rent and taxation imposed on the 'noes , lion, in addition to entrance fees, 1791. ; donations, AU 12s. ; dividends, 211. 15e. 3d. ; life subscription', 781. ; ostetendiag life autectiptions 261. 2a. 9d.; made a total receipt of 2,0161. 14e. The total ordinary expenditure figured 1,7361. 19s. Id., and there had been invented in the purcham of 3761. An 6d. Canada 2601., which left • balance at the bankers of 181. 12s. 2d., and a balance of life subscriptices to hand of 31. 2s. 9d. The stock, by the purchase of the Commie alluded to, now =canted to 1,0381. 3 per Cent. Cowell. The estimated income and expenditure for the present yeas WY 1,4301. The council alluded with regret to the death of the late secretary of the Institution, Mr. L. H. J. Tomei who had been connected with the institution twesty-eau years, during which period it had derived great benefit Oen his ability and seal. Captain Bargees, of the Indian amp, had been appointed to fill his post. The council had also le regret the deaths of two vice-presidents during the pa:2r Vice-Admiral Lord Badatonk, and Rear-Admired ' Beaufort. The Minn of the Belgians bad become a of the instittalos t _end bad accepted the office of vice-perm, Mr. SIDNIT HULBERT, the chairman, in acknowledg ing a vote of thanks, observed th at the perils of the army had greatly improved. One advantage re thee had resulted from the war; for when war was goleg oat, MI danger imminent, and moons was fresh, the English were very grateful to those by whom sumer was atb sad their interest compelled them to increase the efileiseey the woke on which their encase depended. (Bear, Meat) The array had every Framer of becoming still more popular. The country bad get into what he might call a war sad for sea years to come young officers wo have to complain of the want of means of ascertaining grape from Bhrsposil. (" Hear, bear," and a laugh.) Another advantage to the army valid arias from the introduction it many militia officers Into the HOLM of Commons. In look ing at the transectiona of the Institutions for the peat year, and at the lectures which had been delivered, he had been struck with this fact—that during • time of peace /oust attention was paid to everything concerning the common pert. of the two profession,. Lectures were sure to be deli vered on strategy, tactics, fortification, engineering, granary, and projectiles. But there were other subjects mach more difecult—questions relating to the feeding of armies and one nitary pretentious for maintaining the life of armies. (Her, beer.) A few yews ego, when he was secretary at war, sell wee anxious to give the army an opportunity of seeings:4o movements in the Geld, • literal member expeeseed Wadeable whether the advantages gained by forming the amp at Chobbam amid be put in eon:Tarim with the loss of ttfo artillery horses which were drowned on that (Laughter.) That feeling had gone by, sod epee= were afforded of swing large bodies of troops together. Bpt the question as to how modes see to be fed could not he S y solved In time of peace. There was no comely in the world me under such disadvantages, considering the adventagetit England. Troops might be parked in the frd,mgetu ea t artificial difficulties could not be raised in order that the commissariat might be tasked to overcome them. A commimariat maid not be properly taught during pros and it was important to keep such subjects in view so that the theory of what could not be brought into medico should be studied as much no possible. In this respect the navy had enormous advantages over the army, because thee was but little Memos between peace and war to the naval man. His conimiesariat, his hospital he carried along with him. But the =NI was very difertnt with regard to the stay. The soldier was thrown on his own resources, std bed to provide for every possible emergency. The task wee Imposed upon him of making bricks without straw. For these reasons be treated be Mould not be thought Stimeeti emit in expressing a hope that the council would am eve look sanitary questioas I. the lecture' hereafter he be Mile mired. (Hear, hear.) There were no instances of whole armies being destroyed by the sword, bat there were Imerfal Inseams, on record of mules perishing from dream. The Weichersexmodition, for instance, where the mortality woe smoothing like 900 out of 1,000 per annum. Theo these was the eautpaurn of Nspoleou, an which, as was semereed by almost ill Frenchmen, the great army was destroyed by the severity of the climate. Bet if the statistics in the Free* War office were to be bared this wee en entire invention en cover the reputation of the Emperor, who had sacrificed the army to defective ommeisesriat arrangements, became Of that army, which emedeted of 600,400 men, thee went may 66,000 left three days Were the frost began, and so far from the sonylaving been deetypyed hy the frost, a most meted, ✓etreat was effected, 40,000 men laving retinue( le ?MOO, end only 16000 Tees having been lest During the Penin ears war 20 per cont of theme were In the hospitals bed rely 11 per asst. were aufferiag front wounds. Bach, la seemee bed of Ws yeas been ate la civil life of what caooppesW be abated by sanitary arreiegemests that it would be isamaity not to extend asaltery 110111100 to the army. fiat . ; res.) In corkers e be holed to express his grata:4oG at having had the herein to tabs part in the propionate the day, and the Geme loiterer whit* be felt in the wane of the tere asevime L essi hie pop.II•1 ROO* , Of hi. faaa: o br dose t= a effiree teem be had been rem& eider ht Grew reviler the other. (vhl lBo 4 The reettifttlem separated. p boug Febr they for el tot then area eew nod] and , he r he a stet the mil bell Teri 11/Of the Bei bor Rig lIIIOC rep tow