The Express. — London, England, 1859-03-12 00:00:00

r 0. PSCHRLL was favourable to tpatry , bat wee rejoiced to boa that sot a shadow at impatwon Ins at gallaat Mow Biz Beldwie Welker, then whom there sever had been a mere skilful, sealowk, er valuable public servant. Sir J. ELPHINBTOY6 would meet willingly rapport a committee to inquire into the oteetttution of Oa Bawd of Ad oiralty, Ile never could inadersmad we oar ear wag prof so roteplettly loth, tht , rontroi of eieffime; he could to testily treatise al admiral prendlag In the Common Pins. (A Imits.) Mr. M. GIBSON seamed Met thu err hog ebealilll4 pow lib motion, but that a committee al Maley Arid be gerrif remerked that the ships ankh beei bra much oontleamed hod been found of the greelegt rents dories the Remits Mt. 80014 of thin W pour to the other if. of the weal, sell were than awfully employed to prolestrg err gumene. He over that it mead be Movable to bow ea harm het M le eight, with we* to the garrilltere le the 'obis lord was coal lewd the mirk. Wlth nerd le the American Itylrent.wileit sense member bad resemmesded await be folleteeil. Is behoved Is Aserler digs a which w. hod herd se are lien tarry reaper' IBM defective. Ho had ten the Manterwo, wire egad not envy all her swat, sari Yr stale curb. fir bet sir end mold eel, go 74 keen anhear near horeerebio demeanor.* The Maher, Or Where, gad the Diadem wen realty ipso to ireatiens, wad wen caterly ad ger ahipa a• we ought is talks et i After .Mai 4 t Of J. IlAriuseirome, Mr. LINDSAY merest the MIMI, end observed the the tight hoe. Wert had admitted sere days ago the sub /tears of what the ride lord bed ergs ellgeed, sad that the right hon. Wean wee meg tithe Imes whkh his noble Slued had naiad, for le had armed himself us no renal OCCOMoe wok strismais ti E. Sernyoe cif the Nan le on plenai.oe. Sir ts. WOOD bleed that the reit= would an be to lb. alabier Swift leiniellehiL The tight boa genuesson the lint Lard el re Allubralty bad oe • pr. ,110111 night charged lit goederris with bring rowdy egglacto I the raft el annals claws of atom sad steed that we was ishrtor to or engines., mid not err earn IMO expand to &arr. H. loot here I siting tor seer apponasity foe vhadisatlg hr. liftola a dirge of sash • erre end gene ehreorr, sad tin lainedesi to do so ba re rem el the ilbraigas is lb. gavel astreves, and bal se leer geisha Eli to misty th• Inn that no warn el dry bad eed that Me beard bad bra fully ales to re age= =Meg a largo cleat se Alta Al erreet he erre, say torten oatrost, sad wield twenty toy that tin deine ane not pooh. dby tho not (Haw, bar.) Mr. CURRY had tan tritroge h erns that Ere wee sot Ile Wieling tiontatios f s the slurp. that etre wye • as& mercy et 6,000.000& n 'be earl aireellinte id Er rat arm para. sad he seeisersted here seetalind her Lord C. l'spe• want whin enema that arseet. J. RUSSELL observed Ent dire 111.11 tee rarer Wore the hymn— namely, the mar ref the armee nt mar by the more. As to the realgo, be then& the here win aot ia • seedlike' to prostyle* any parkelar ham se les estimate.; but it we. eat sand :dory that the rine enterer of Ipri Cl swan Parr eannully yee= *hoar be entirely on ride, and that the *geld how ao 'jerky two the matter. The eh ewritior rade in no Anon had left as twee. era ea lie need that than rant to be gam Mother r eeky. Than was no wish to igniter try punkah, penes, lb. Send Sr Atheireity, er the yur se the 1 ear ; bet it wee treatile to keen whiner** beWtgrd ✓enta•airden sr set rye tisedesed with inenary. The CH ANCRIS R of the EXCHRQUIR end the gonwernt hod so se'he te as harlin, het this B Ecal oa roan lie ken* larger with dame reign bad appeared .am ainere a isentra Warily ter Ma en politer., oboes elven word be laid rem the bran which w nit te then tea stedbion to ry winner Mgr rearrative was wrier. Mr. T. G. RARING *Ogg oet MOM In Lord C. Porte etatoret to oho west or 2,200,00111, which abseid below the hoer, be said, to seaport so b er anon. Attar iota* nt • realms* by Mr. Jason' LOCK., The houtva chaidal as molisa Ise golas tots coal- Wass of ...Apply N Ayes l97—to The arayadasat wo 116111101•0107 1114. Oa the asstlas that lb. fteselur &said haw the ask, Mr. WILLIAMS sooas4 that Ow navy allmalos Mould am Parsed to a wise asmaattea. bat be wan appals( to by Mr J. PA X INOTON Mall. W Woe p tat* NM sifts of yupply, la odor Mat tho vole far ware sista I. tabs, se the Yeti al osa far tilt vary lag boss teams ea • brae oecee , ..l. Mr. ',Mims did ma poia bt. anyagmat. Mr. C. GILPIN lei as mortals( as mow ulna • Nab ject, to ..d, payalacsaat haportatat to tam boom "taw Lad—hie o%icas Was to call tb. sawlike of Oa bass so tits destruct,n the 264 Native Infinity at Ujung' ca the Ist Anu.t, 1867, se detaled in • work, " The Crisis is the l'utjeu..," by Fret,.i k Cooper, Lg. tomals.• sheer ~ 1 U tor tour. In *mayhems, by/0,4r, it& tam.as of dos boar, he sin ted • auirgembni hal tam sods to Ms, and eonsent ' ad to wi Mem Ms a5t144 7 41 intending M bring finned the potion its die vodka night. SUPPLI7—THIS NAVY ZaTIMA RS. The louts tbsit went into conatnittoe of wanly on lb. Davy estinaatte. Cte the drat vote salted, which was 995,6474 for victuals ix the servins of the year, Mr. CARDWELL inquired to what extent the Rovers merit had determined to carry out the recommendatione of She royel entatn.esion upon the mauling of the nor, P Sir J. PAKINOTON replied that the re pet of that commieoon corollate& of two separate pers. The Board of Admiralty hod token into coeside ration all the reoomow• gators. Meting to toprts,eineets in the cendittan of the sailor which were comprieed in th• first part of that report. He was happy to my that the Board of Admiralty approved of and bed adopted every one of those recomnsesdatioca, eslokh they had considered seriatim; and he behoved they wss'd hare the ►fect of improving the condition d the sailor, sad far Waling the massing if the navy. It wee the wish of the Admiralty, if they received the esneVon of thermatry, to !lorry out every one of those rsoornamedatieme. let elf thit come 1 , , the remit% port of tire report nine, rrbkh related re geniis ar- rengeosente prop:mei for obtaining 'allure hum the nietesatde marine, the evidence had Is., et been recelvad, and before the rearrest ist could make up their minds am le Important • plea they should me that evidence. Mr. LINDSAY remarked that the first pert of the re ef the &Into ation recommenied an espendltam of not than 100.000 J. of mosey. There might be some hon. mar ben who thought that it was not irceessry to Mew that is areamd expenditure, aad who believed, as he did, that we found no ditnemity is m.naityt our navy In time at rani It would be advinable to t.ke the MOPS of the hare upon that gyration . . mid that though the two ships whieb bait latvly her cesamordosed had bees rapidly mooned, they had le reality ably brae ward will drafts fr,.no other Mips. It weemestasirable flit the mar mulattoes should b published as we Mpassible. Sir J. PALINOTON aald lac regidadase avuld be pro sou4ratal raw is the Malls bad hiss tattled. N. CARDWILL a eel* atlellall with the ooeduot of the anversanal with mead aa the feasamiaaistkai. la dr spat. Or of those tenors adatisaa was that the Aby sm of toed should be farrowed by 60,0004 ; and he pm. amall that a suppleweatil vote would therefore be required hoes* as J.7/11110TON w salsselesd to sweet. Os was was lama sewed to., sad Ow hour restuael. TIM BAST INDIA LOAN BILL. la wswed.Sse ma felt bill, 111 r. CRAWIPOILD tbourbt Nod some nodal should to ghee of the rawer is which the garennuest istsaded to ima hf the poarani gists to thee. WA STANLEY said Past • r weidersible portion of the lowa vexed b. reapered 'Wheat ova delay. The La I was awned to with • taw verbal alteration.. COUNTY COURTS BILL. . . TIV bin ..;;;;;i Mr. •Y RYON Werrei in lb. "larch" of the /ewer of aseneePuget by meaty amen ledges, end the node of frestavet of ere MO en•mired. Tie — AfrOkilli 7 Oigiiiii._ mid the swee., tau' swam d r MU' iwirrtaawo, sad was ammo Io b muff. t►s sub ject of inquiry as woos as moo myna wbkh bad bees wooed f. r err. obtaiwa4. RE !VISION OF PENALTIRS BILL. 1b . .u.h ....-.- c . b .rd onwiloo. KECRIATION 0110L14D6 BILL. TVs I. .1 tbrosils oommkkm. Mr NW ART wowed tbs eddllies of member Was um whs. na r•.ll , lt.botimi sad eettlemeaL lees. Mr VANsiT FART appease Is melee r is ei• roma last ibs c-otatitt. amok esesrled the wember et lb. &At • I ... iralcrokoL Mr. SMART ...I bee* preeseed b setwebele MI sew Menss Inc mow her Mr. EnCOCMT NO. so AD silitiee wee sword sad countni.too stwely surebeeel it *dß be Ileetteble withers. th. 'notice . Molina withlok.k. ?be hos.* wipe:lW at a quorior t, we o'clock. Printed forme wars yesterday delivered to the losabso mess esil tennis of the royal ese two:wise is Wool wich Anewal prohibiting, IS pe■ of balm& dismissal, my isform.t ~ a In be glom reisho So dr depureeeeet rues to sisal awl millisry Akan Is Ire Kidney's eerdre. _ _ Thou Paris lioseigeete i flreidebes the idliewins oboorvatt es at lbo Arertiene Mb w invoe- Nos it Intonotion la every poke of view; bet we wfll oaks sae nark. In the %bid bed ti ea eanyelos the Lela pr awed a Mob amts. lows es Yr lIIIMNRIN get. Os the peek* greed a ha" It drew le a poet Moment tad *l4 proolloa; N biebebsd kiiitag pre *tile of t• rebid am.; bet in the JIM sea l• seen vet It did we maim the dominos ebiek led bee peadeil by exporenosto 64 boom. It threw to • ilittale Niter to Whit hog boa expeita, Nod without preoblie. kr Sr prop—t.lo, ow at iN ger klogt foul woo Sat k ante: Mr& W , Who. 'hot the as. moon, like Cho leittootte h ea t oplat b. defialtivelyjnAged on the Sold of battik" M. 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Mew Diresd sal elks Mom asthma. sad halo : lift a Alra—Oloommot T. Tim lvnso. VII WRY 01161.1. Mr. sad Mts. Illllll4ma—AN S • OUK A? SIT , ILLs. Bann Williasa l l i 4ll ttairsetrateLtr;..l7. "is` NRITANNIA. Inorrit. 11 . 11 DST= TOO WTI TO DIVID. lbw lit Isny Two k Livia LAMM; or. The 1814 Dwy 5041 1 00 1 174 elel—And DON JUAN. ZION WATILS AT LONDON IMMO& rne Day—alsieles. Tr. rerleamew—Mistabo. fa. Ns— --Minases. 11. La THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 12 /859. acknowledgment of communication after 00111119J1; : . ' 01160111, so well known to all those who have to d ew " benne with public officio The tot sivility that studiously evades a direct reply ; the appa rently wilful misunderstanding of a previous inquiry ; the employment of phraseology that, under the veil of • very flimsy politeness, suggests the ex pediency of a cessation of the applicant's impor tunity—all this is to be seen by those who like to take the trouble of wading through thews epistles, and see how these things are managed. Months, years, rolled away ; human life by wholesale, and gold by millions, was meanwhile being squandered on that miserable peninsula in the &mine ; still no disposition was manifested by those in power to try to arrest the waste of either blood or treasure by a trial of Mr. MACIPITOBIif II schemes. As some curiosity may have been aroused upon the subject, we propose very briefly to describe in what they consisted. Be it known, then, that those who intend to attack a sea fort or battery upon the patent principle have only to provide themselves with • suitable coil of hose, a force-pump, a stock of coal naphtha, and a ball of potassium. Taking eara to keep well to windward of the point to be assailed, the attacking party allow the tube to drift towards it by means of a boat or other buoyant object; they then discharge through the tubing a supply of the naphtha, which cannot mix with the water, and may now easily be inflamed, as it floats upon the surface, by means of • pellet of potassium. Immediately there arises from the blazing naphtha a dense suffocating vapour, almost as intolerable as a London fog. In this horrible atmosphere the unfortunate enemy be coming enveloped, has no possible alternative but either to fly or to remain and be asphyxiated. In any ease resistance is useless; the assailants cannot be descried through the impenetrable carbonic curtain ; there is no need of any expenditure of ammunition, and the day is noiselessly won. The idea, it must be admitted, is ingenious, though perhaps not absolutely original. In the insect world the bombardier beetle, when pursued by a hungry adversary, discharges, with a bright flesh and a sharp explosion, from a minute " stern-chaser," a volume of acrid smoke, effectually preventing further pursuit. The cattle-fish, again, having vainly tried other modes of escape, suddenly has missness, like certain officials, to a discharge et Ink, and so bales all further thread gods& The American skunk is provided for pur pose( self-defence with the means of generating at I will an atmosphere nearly as pestilential as that of one of our own law courts, or of • crowded omnibus. We have it upon the best authority that Juno, when placed in an awkward predicament by the impor tunities of Izio,was relieved from her embarrassment by a ready and judicious application of smoke. JEaeas, too, as we all know, was saved from an un timely fate by similar means. Few people will fail to recall, as belonging to this " class of cases," that memorable duel, so well described by Manaver, in which the midshipman, after a rapid discharge of several ship's pistols, with which he had been liberally supplied by his second, the gunner, had a cutlass put into his hand by the same functionary, with an emphatic injunction to " board the enemy in " the smoke" before he recovered front his con fusion ! We have not the slightest wish, however, to detract from the great merit of Mr. MACINTOSH'S invention, by hinting at any lack of originality, nor even to throw the least doubt upon its practi cability. There are 'miens other modes of applying this bottled smoke, according to the peculiar exigen cies of different cases. Experiments on a large scale at Portsmouth have proved that the execution of the various plans is simple, certain, and comparatively inexpensive. At his own cost, Mr. MACINTOSH freighted a vessel and proceeded to the Crimea while the memor►ble siege was yet proceeding, and he then and there offered to our admirals a ready means of closing a tedious and costly war, and of saving, to we his own words, " eighty millions sterling, and " 40,000 to 60,000 valuable lives." Bat, from some cause or other, the authorities gave him no encouragement, and beyond the payment of 1,0001. towards reimbursing his expenses, he has re ceived no remuneration for all his labours in the service of his country. It may probably be surmised that motives of humanity prevented the adoption of the MACINTOSH system of warfare— that no compunction was felt at the employment of any of the recognised modes of destruc ticm—at caresge however great, provided only it were brought about in a legitimate way ; but Lord PANHTHE and the Lords of the Admiralty seem to have recoiled alike from the responsibility of reproducing in the bright climate of the south our own hyperborean fog. The press of Con tinental Europe might have rung with one wild howl at the flagrant atrocity of the act. "It is all " very well," they would doubtless have exclaimed, " for these islanders, cram sob am esti, bred in fog, " breathing fogs habitually, and addicted to smoke, " to indulge in their favourite luxury on their own " shores ; but surely war has horrors eneugh of its " own, without such additional, such unwarrantable " inflictions as this," fix. Be this, however, u it may, we do not propose at present to discuss that view of the subject. What has been already stated, will suffice to show that this invention is a very im portant one, perhaps far more so than may be at first sight apparent. If we do not adopt it, other nations will unquestionably do so—how then, it may be asked, are future wars to be conducted? Will fair fighting be practicable either by sea or land if this exaggerated " smoke nuisance" cannot in any way be abetted P Shall we have a convention of civilised nations, for the purpose of coming to an agreement that com manders shall abandon all notion of suffocating each other, should they unhappily have to meet in hostile array? Will it not be neoessary to announce, in lup lithos, ea the outside of Cronstadt and Cher bourg—" No Smoking Allowed"? We say nothing of Gibraltar or Malts, bemuse, of cause, the inven tion could have no injurious effect upon English troops ; but as regards other and unseasoned garri sons, ow really does not see how, under such exter nal preen, they can avoid following the example of the " Coons," who, when aimed at by that unerring Kentucky marksman, C.aptaia SCOTT, are said invariably to have cried out, "Don't Are, captain— " we give in—we're coming down!" The Press of to-day earnestly advisee Mr. Dia- NA to *cabdriver the Reform Bill. Free whet we bear," rye sew satesporery, "of no views of the beet Ina ea bell aides dohs beam, we are oavtaced that it is the °etymons by ankh the goveraosat caa pat themeilvea right with the &saw parliament, sad we are raid. d that Nader pmist cireemeteacee t►ey hove monies to gale by an appeal to the aoseiry." ABOLITION OF THE TOLL ON RICHMOND-BRIDGE. —Now that the gorilla!' of the abolltioa of metropeillum tolls la ander etmaideration by a royal oomialealom, It ettE lateremina to the public ti know that at a seetiog of tat listnaind-bridge nasaieskows beat on the lab Wise, M. Pinnate. amine= at tiw Mama maighlawfas, pas =it was dialed that in ess 76th instast the tall»her Is taisevad sad Ws bit* disard ass to the plaids. CITIRAL PALA= i ISNILLJNO DAT. Fal;;;:iilscitii;:law:ii; ea — zureisi, 102; by isms IMO ; 411 ; WM WWI; 4131. LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 12. Tun City has pronounced against the Bill. Nearly all the Metropolitan Boroughs had previously de. eland their conviction of its insufficiency to meet the wants of the time; and their unanimous verdict has now received the confirmation of that great centre of wealth, intelligence, and enterprise that sits as a queen among the capitals of nations. Speaking by the lips of her parliamentary repre sentative, and foremost merchants, London yesterday gave forcible and fitting expression to the sentiment, whisk everywhere pervades the community, that unless a measure of Reform is calculated to appease the just discontent with which industry and intellect regard their present exclusion from the rights et citizenship, it is not worth while disturbing the existing order of things. For itself the City literally asks nothing. To its inhabitants and proprietors it matters lees than to any equally numerous section of the people what are the provisions of the measure. Whatever be eventually determined on as the proper bane of the suffrage, it will hardly make any appre ciable difference in the choice of the four individuals chum se their representatives, or in the tone of the eonstitnent body by whom they are elected. But London sympathises intelligently and wisely with the legitimate requirements of the rest of the realm ; and discerning instinctively that its own permanent weal is indissolubly bound up with that of the pro- Maces, it seldom fails to throw the weight of its authority into the scale wherein depend the just claims of the nation at large. Nor is it unworthy of note how little stress has been laid at meet of the metropolitan meetings on the speciflo disappointment of their local expectations. With the exception of Chelsea, whose case is no doubt peculiarly hard, none of the populous and wealthy districts laying claim to increased represented= appear to have founded their protests against the Government Bill upon their sense of peculiar wrong done to them. Neither has a grudging or jealous word been spoken regarding the benefit invidiously conceded to the counties. No urban eye is evil, be_ cane Lord DERBY has been good to rural industry and worth. On the contrary, every popular assem blage that has met and deliberated on the question hes frankly owned, either in so misny words or by implication, that the reduction of the county fran chise to IW. is just and right, and that in point of het it is the one redeeming feature in the scheme. From all quarters, however, echoes of the same Oiler and unmistakeable utterance come, that the Bill faits to answer the main purpose for which slow it professes to have been framed. Ix oar recent observations upon certain inventions new in process of adoption, and calculated at no dis tant time to alter the character of modern warfare, we purposely abstained from any allusion to an en. tirely new system of strategy, still more likely, if adopted, to change, if not altogether to revolutionise, the proceedings of future belligerents. Bir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, Captain NORTON, and Mr. WARRT carry out their hostile operations by means of projectiles of unusual range and by an. wonted means of combustion, explosion, and de flagration. Mr. JOHN MiictNrostt, however, goes to work in a very different, if not in an altogether novel way. He has taken out a patent for " facili " toting attacks co strongholds, batteries on shore, " and on fleets, dockyards, harbours, towns, and other " objects," as well as for the better defence against a hostile approach. In the dull, common-place rou tine of ordinary life the occupatioos of few amongst us would urge them to teat the utility of the proceeding detailed in the specification. It is not often, in the course even of the longest and most chequered career, that a man has occasion to attack • fortification, or even the simplest " field work." The vale* of the patent cannot, therefore, depend se mach opal its adoption by the public generally, as by that very limited portion to whom the manage ment of all destructive pweeedinga is entrusted—the War Department, Aware, doubtless, of this circum stance, Mr. MACINTOSH, as soon as he had matured all his plane, and modified himself of their perfect feasibility, immediately made application to the navel and military authorities, offering, upon terms that do not seem unreasonable, when the extent of tee proposed undertaking is considered, to place his invention at their disposal. As far back as December, 1854, he wrote to the Duke of Nnirc.r.seta, who granted him au interview, and, after witnessing several practical experiments in the private gardens of the War Department, ex pressed his intention of having the matter fully in vestigated, and directed Captain Sir THOMAS Malt. LAND to report upon it. . . It will be remembered that at this time the Crimean war was raging, the Allied Fleets had been repulsed from the fortifications of Sebasto pol, the entrance to the harbour was clamed by a barrier which it had been found impossible to demolish or remove ; yet, notwithstanding this accumulation of adverse circumstances, our ises•tor boldly undertook to render the stupendous fortresses at the mouth of the port untenable, to &gm the Russian fleet, and to place Sebastopol la a taw boors at the disposal of the English sad French forces. Every day, at this juncture, wu, a coarse, of extreme valise, and, to do him justise, Mr. MACINTOSH appears to hare prosecuted kb salt with a degree of zeal and energy worthy 01 • Warr H►ts. Ha has now printed in rather a key pamphlet the whole of the correspondence that so pa jt M the old, old story—til t bland °Said be Court. The Queen and Prince consort accompanied by the Princelier Alke and Heleas, visited Bridgwater Home iptetday afternoon. The Equerries in Wailing, Major- Omer.' the Hoe. C. Grey and Camel the Hon A. lianimgc, were in &wondering. The Prince Consort rode en horeeback io the morning. Queen and Prince Ceesert, attended by Lady Mao &mad, Hoe. Lucy Herr, Hon. Mary lialteel, the Earl of fibtfticid, bi.jor-G.nerel the Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel the Hon A. Hardinee, honoured the perforusu'e at Covent garden Theatre with their pregame last evening. A deputation of Scotch county reembera had en Interview with the Bad of Maloseibum at the Foreign-office, yea.erday on the guano trade. The depataton consisted e,f I,rd Haeldo, Lord James Stuart, IL P. General Arbu th not, M.P., Mr. Mackie, M.P, Mr. Firm M.P., Colon( I Sykes, M.P., Mr. Hope Joh:atoms, MX Mr. El li ot Lockhart, M.P., Mr. A. Seewart, M.P. Sir 3.'1/. Blptdestono, M.P., Sir Edward Colebrook*, M.P. Sir Graham Montgomery, M P., Mr. Palley, M.P., Lord litho. M.P.. Hon. Flan= Scot. M.P., and Hon. Arthur If eneal4 A depotatioa from the Provincial Idenssed Viednellers' Defence League had an intetview with liajor-Gentral Peel at Ca* war-office yartsrday, remaining of Mr. Gawp Can- Men, Mr. loiterer and Mr. Andrew Dobbie, froth Xmases ter. The deputation was latrodeced by Kr. J. Aapieal Tar tar, M.P., Mr. T. B. Hordell, M.P., Mr. Marry, Captaia Grey, M.P.. Mr. Cross, M.P., Mr. Cowes, M.P., and Mr. Braley. M.P. Mr. Cowan, M.P., and Mr. Cherie. Lawson, Directors of the Nee local lostuence Company ef Scotland, Mr. Smollett, M.P., Mr. leCandlish, Manager, and Mr. Maclaurin, Par- Intoentary Agent, had an latentew with the Berl of Docourthroore yesterday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. D. snatches were received at the Cofinial-031os yestenlvy (rnt the Lord High Commissioner of the lonien lelaode, and the Governors of the settlements on the Wt et Comm of Africa. Despatches were Nat to the Governors of the Ninth A merle= end the Aunt:alba colonies. WAR-OMM MARCH 9.—The Queen has been grocionalyaltaard to give orders for the appointment of Rem-- Admiral Sir Themes Hmtings, C. 8., sometime min d* storekeeper of the ardneser to be as ordinary member of the (fail dinien of the woad elms. or Wildlife com mander% of the met honourable Grew of the bath. WisrrEasza, Maaca 9.113.• Queen has been ;dimwit to direct Wen patent to be parsed under the great ae 11 of he Coded Kingdom .f Gnat end Ireland, constituting and appointing the Right }knowable Sir John &merge' Pekiturees Bart.; Vice-Adurfral William Fan shear Martin; Vice-Admiral the Honourable Sir Richard flaundera Hondas, K.C.8.; Beer-Admiral Alexander Milne, K.C. B. ; Ceram the Hosourab'e Bergen Thome+ Cerceoie, C. 8.; end the Honverable Frederick Lygon, to be her Ma jest)'s cortuutsolowra for tzeculieg the office of lord bivh admiral t f the raid United Kinedom of Greet &Pain end Ireland, and the dominions, Islands, and territnies there ant. belonging. FORZION.CIFFICE, MARCH 10.—The Queen has been pit seed to approve of Mr J. W. S. May se consul at Liverpool for his Majesty the King of the Netherland.; sad of Don Juan Antonio Argueb es oozed at Newcastle-upow Ty ma for her Majesty the Queen of Spain. DOWNIRO-ITHRET, MARCH 9.—The Queen has been plowed to appoint Samuel Mitchell, 800 , to be Colonial Secretary for the Island of Grenada, sod Henry Orstiao Bwhe, Esq., to be Inspector of Palos for the Island of Trinidad. Her Majesty will hold a low% on the 28th proximo, sad a dtawlarreoet cet the loth rozimo. • - - The Diathesis of Inverness gave a grand enter tainment at hr apartments la Kensington Palace Wit even log to their R. .yil Hielmams the Dachas of Cambridge and the Princess Mary end the Dake of Cambridge. The falowing Wife larked to meet their royal highnesses —His Ear&limy the Austrian liter or sad the Counties Apponyl and the Countess Maria Paumearten, his Excellency the Premiss Mintier sad the Countess de Semisoft, his Excel- Ism the Minister for the Netberlinds, his Excellency the Bares Yielder, the Doke and Dachas§ of Marlitorough, the Earl and Count se of Darby and Lady Emma Stanley, the Earl of Hariwicke, Count prandial:are, Count Chotek, Calomel the Hos. W. Cake, M.P., Mr. George Russell, to. Liontemat-Cokaal Home Plum was in wetting on their to) el highnesses. Aoother domestic affliction has befallen his Excel lency Count de Levradio, Nutcases, Minister at this smut Scarcely recoverei fens the mere shack hie ercelleacy cc Town ly suffered, yanerilay'a sail brought the inielligeace of the death at hie sister, the Dubow de Ficalho, Mistress of the Robes to her Majesty the Queen • f Portugal. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch are expected la town early in the ensuing week, from Scotland. The Marquis of Salisbury, as President of the Censal, gave an entertainment kat owning to a knee taro btr of 'he members of the ednoetioaal bean& of his loatlehip's Oleo, at his private tevidtnce. in Atlington-street, The Earl of Minto was, we are gratified to learn, such better yesterday, end hopes are now entertained of hie ultimate reoovery. Lard Rosalyn has accepted the office of Under- Secretary he War, vacant by the resignation of Lord Har ding*. Lord Barba is a major-moral in the army, and his been John Pester of the Buckboands. In the event of a vacancy occurring in the repre sentation of Carob, kip Valve reify. C. J. Selwyn, Esq., QC., of Trinity Colkfra, the Chancery barritter, brother of the Bishop of New Zealand and of Profeseor Selwyn, will be • cendidete. Sir Roderick Murchison, President of the Royal Geostraphlcal &deity, bas issued cards for two reception. of the Fellows, with the chief literary and political celebrities In London, for thii 16th and 30ih of March. Mr. Gibeou is sending to England from Rome his coloured status of Venue For the Herta collection of antiquities Mr. Mayer gave Mr. Herbs twelve thoneenii pounds. The recent sae of the clllectim, the Illustrated tondos News says, realised tea thousand pounds. Mr. Mayer bwi, oonseqountly, lost two thousand pounds by the treametioa. The new volume of the Philobiblon Society issued to the members this week contains eight hitherto nnpab lished letters from the author of "The &aims" to the author of the ballad of " William and Merger.. t," The nation is said to have made a good bargain Ia obtaining Burlington Bou.e, in Piccadilly, for 140,0001. " But .he ostion," sags die Illustrated L 044011 NOW., .‘ will not coot nue ti pesetas a good bargain if it surrender to the Royal Academy of Arts oae•hsif of its acquisition for 40,0001. There must be some troonstration of the Aoademy, sod some mown revision of the rules of that institution, before parliament submit to the tares proposed by Lord Lyadhurst on its Libel. Besides, the Academy is in a porition t eve more than 40,0001. The average Income of the Academy f r the last ton years, Lord Lynd hurst. mils U 4, but been 7,0001. The Acadiany has its own fended property; It ha a large Turner bequest; and within a few yeas it will Labatt the 70,0001. of for Fronds Chantrey." _ . - , Spine will commence this year ►t fie* minutes to 4 o'clock is tie afterasoa 04 the 20th. - - The Italian exiles have arrived at a good time. It is du* to them that a manifestation of sympathy ehould be made. The men of whom we were jest speaking, sad who hes worked nobly for them in other day*, should take the laid—l mean Mr. Gladstone. A banquet in l3alWball to the Italian martyrs, with eladatone in the chair, would be a nobler eight than has been seen in that place for a couple of hundred years.— literary Gasell*. The contributions raised in Cork for the relief of the Neepoliten refugees already amount to about 1001. Many of sham have also been provided with lodging, to , flee of &genie, in private fealties. The Southern Roporkr, which bee wielded the CNN, With great earneetnew, says:— . We are nucleated to stab that the mignon of M. PASHA Settembeini, fur the resent of his father, was in no way set an foot by the Italian Sect, ty is Loudon. He proceeded to Cadiz, in &inheres of 911.1 duty, knowing that his lather would be =wog the exiles ea board tee Donald Stewart, and, we bel ore, be paid his fare ea en ordinary pavanes.. The noble young man reczived the greater part of his edu cat,cat in Englaud, end wee a student in Kings College, " New tbat Lent has come," earl a letter from Perim. " the ►btert and most eloquent preachers of the French chare.h—the eneem of them are Jeanie—haws been eppointed to prima envy Sunday, and even on certein week-days es well, le every church in the copied. All churchgoing Is considered decorous just now, and as Froechrose generally like orsto , y, even when it comes firma the pulpit, them reverend men will no doubt attrect crowded eoegregatione." The commission charged withr the erection of a reasalficeat church la Medi id, to boowar of the Immacals'e Concertos, hem deckled on Inviting the architects of ell Barone to send la &elves. The Affghan chief, 81d Dyk Khan, who has been at Conateaticople for tire years es • refuges from Centaur, has left for Alezzotir4 on board the &WWI', with a suits of tensity-Saar Felons. Wade protesdhtg theme to Eagles& LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AUSTRIA. A telegram, dated Munich, yesterday, states that Count Buol has addressed another circular despatch to the Austrian diplomatic agents abroad. Accord ing to this circular all the pending questions were discussed at Vienna, between Count Buol and Lord Cowley, without, however, any proposition having been made. Count Buol flatters himself that Lord Cowley, on leaving Vienna, has taken with him the conviction of the conciliatory sentiments of the Emperor, who is ready to co-operate for the maintenance of peace if the Emperor of the French will re-establish the good relations between the two countries. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. (NT ZLECTOTC TILIOIAPZ.) (ROY tori, OWN (70111PONDINT.) BOUTHMIPTON, BATVWDLY. The Alhambra has arrived, with the Lisbon mail, and dates to March 7. She briny specie to the amount of 1,7291. Her Majesty's steamer Ardent is on her way to England. She has been ashore on the Coast of Africa. It is feared that great delay will take place before Sir Morton Peto gets the railway concession in Por tugal. The grain market has risen, and there is a pros pect of short crops. Exchange at Lisbon on London, 38 days, 331 tot ; 90 days, 631 to 34. THE BOMBAY MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, B►mao ►t Mosouto. The Behar has arrived with the heavy portion of the Bombay mails. She brings 31 passengers, and 2,2001. in specie. Her dates are Alexandria, Feb. 28; Malta, March 2; and Gibraltar, 7th. The Grand Duke Constantine and the Duchess were at Malta when the Behar left. On her way, the Behar spoke the steamers Enxine, Ceylon, Teviot, Ripon, Euphrates, and Tagus. Exchange at Gibraltar, 51t. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Craom ors owl! coi PARIS, FRIDAY ETINIIIIO. I have very good reason to believe that the news of yesterday, that Lord Cowley's mission to Vienna is a total failure, will turn out to be correct. There are many statements to the contrary in several German journals. The German Journal of Frank fort, for instance, says that a European Conference will be assembled, to devise a pacific solution of the Italian question, and takes upon itself to state, in a very positive manner, that the revision of the Austrian treaties with the Italian States will form the basis of the negotiation. According to this journal the conference is a thing decided upon in principle, and the only doubt is whether it will be held in London, Berlin, or Paris. The New Hanover Oatelle, an official journal, also says that " a basis of negotiation between France and Austria has at length been found," and that the latter power, 3 ield ing to Lord Cowley's representations, is disposed to consent to a revision of its treaties with the Italian States. Austria will also, it is said by this journal, consider the proposition for re placing the Austrian protectorate by that of a European protectorate; she will only reserve a right of unlimited intervention in the duchies of Parma and Modena, in case of revolutionary movements in those countries. I am, however, strongly inclined to think that these and all similar statements must be founded upon news ,from Vienna previous to the article in the Vienna Gazette of the Bth, and Lord Cowley's departure. There is some ground to suppose that down to a very late period of his sojourn in the Austrian capital, that diplomatist did hope to set on foot negotiations with a reasonable chance of success, but that at the last moment he found out that he had been following a Will-o'-the-wisp. If any good result was to be augured from his mission it is scarcely doubtful, considering the immense interest involved, that the fact would ere this have been intimated in some semi-official shape. All the latest letters from Piedmont are most warlike. Count Buol's despatch to Count d'Apponyi is cited as the moving came for the declaration made by the ifeniteur, that there is a " defensive" alliance between France and Pied mont. The doctrine that Austria by her prepara tions has already committed, and is continually com mitting an " aggressive act," such as would con stitute a cases belli within the meaning of the Monitemee declaration, is sedulously inculcated by the war journals both in Piedmont and France. The belief that Prince Napoleon's fall is only temporary, and that he will shortly see his desire upon his enemies, viz., those ministers who, like MM. Fould and Wa lawski, are opposed to war, gains ground. The Bourse was greatly agitated in the morning. Continual sales brought the Rents down to 67fr. 25c., being * per oent.lower than the lowest point at which it was left by the great fall of yesterday. There was a rumour that Sardinia had called for a reinforcement of 76,000 troops immediately. Later in the day some persons began to believe in the possibility of a con gress, and under the influence of this idea and the comparative firmness of the Bounce of London and Vienna there was a rt covery to 68fr. loc., the ulti , saes fall from yesterday being but 15c. For cash Were was a fall of 100., the last price king , 68fr. 15a. Mobilier fell 2fr. 60c. The Orleans and I Lyons Railway rose 2fr. 60c. each; the other linos , were from 2fr. 600. to 6ft. lower. It is stated that immediately otter the miria de' of Prince Napoleon the Emperor sent a tele gram to Algeria ordering General MacMahon to proceed to Paris directly. The Ckarioari announces that M. Emile de Girardin has resigned his seat' in the Consultative Council of Algeria. I have not heard any confir mation of this not very important news. One of the Belgian journals speaks of him as being destined for a portfolio; but this statement must be a joke. A eortempondent of the Cbnlisental Review writes from Cologne:—" As for peculiar demoostrations we bars the theatres, where gray seance @Hulce to Germany's hamar, vetoer, *e., is greeted with thunders of applauee. The lest of dims patriotie dessonstradoss are m anes& from Weimar end from WUrsburg, and they will deutinssty take place Is all the th.stree, greet and entill. Amigos ma always eager to avail thenieelree of a cue which— to see tisk owe harems— . brings down the house.' As far rids* gongs and hymns, their name Is legion. Most pepalerjast now Is a Welulle I, by Heinrich Struck, in whisk it is said that— .Th•Gerisea beast and the ()trona Rhine, And the German land end German wine, Shell Germs be for ever,' and other settavidset propositi..a., beating a strong family likeness to the Heron!' songs, which wore so popoltr some revesteen years dace. Other writers in prosy verse and poetical prom discuss the • natord frontiers cf Oermasy,' and demand the faimelia'e restitution and Germania anon of the A 's ace and of Lorrain*. I wonder tins, gentle- men do not ask for the whole of Feel" biomes that county wee at me period of history eosqnsrei end ocoopied by a Omuta tribe. Oar pnriots when once fairly monsel, an quite as swamise as the Emperor Napoleon, sad they have 'allogetbw M onspaoions a swallow foe territory.'" ITALY. SARDINIA. (1111011 Ott OWN CORRIMPONDN(T.) TURIN, Mk ECK 8. Should the telegraph not tare outstripped the mail, I shall be the first to announce to you that the contingents here rave been called out, to the number of 30,000 men for the present. The government considers itself compelled to take this step, seeing that Austria continues to send fresh troops, and re calls hurriedly all her men absent on furlough. Nevertheleee, as the Sardinian contingents have been summoned to join their colours since the official article in the Moniteur was known here, you will not deny that the fact is one of great importance. It proves that the hope of peace his not increased, and that Count Cavour knows the bearing and true meaning of that article. On the other hand, the movements of the Austrian troops towards the Sardinian frontiers, the fortifi cations and other extraordinary preparations have within the last few days forced a suspi cion into the minds of King Victor Emmanuel's ministers that the party at Vienna, so desirous of breaking off negotiations and commencing the attack without delay, has gained the ascendancy. Volunteers continue to arrive. Among these not a few belong to the wealthiest and noblest families. In contrast with the year 1848, when all wanted to be officers, all now enlist as private soldiers. A rector of the Belunese has arrived here at the head of about twenty of his parishioners, who desire to serve in the approaching war. A few groups of frontier guardsmen, posted by the Austrians to pre vent deserters from coming over to us, have come themselves with their arms and amoutrements. The government of Lombardy has in consequence of all this suspended its travelling permits, and in spects the passports of travellers with the most jealous severity. AUSTRIA. The Journal de I?ankfort of Thursday publishes an important despatch, addressed on the 26th Feb. by Count Buol to the Austrian minister at the court of St. James's . " for communication to the British cabinet. This despatch begins by alluding to the pacific efforts of Queen Victoria's government, and continues thus: The discontent of a portion of the faholit tatter Central and Southern Itiy, it will no doubt be mid, antes from the de fective admintatratios of the governmeats. Whilst ceineuring the thousand calumnies by which it is endeavoured to excite public opinion spinet ;hue govern. meets, we do not feel ourselves cared upon to =Matelot the thesis that everything le perfect In the organisation and ad miniettative system of their country. Even there where the moat excelleot thetitatioas exist we must mike liege allow snees for the hoperfutior sof the instruments. For half a century Italy has been delivered up to every kiud of political experiments. By tuna, the most different systems Wm been introduce]. there. In committ re ee of the fatroluction of hatitutioes that week admiral, wle they have been developed and matured by ages, t which do not seem adapted by their nature to the peels, traditions, and social onadieons of the Italians, we have Kea deplorable catas trophes smoccediog each other in the Peeiueula, ecenes of di order and sanguinary ansrchy. It is assuredirterough no wish of Austria that no allude to these unhappy cloys of Italian Wendy. We have, on the contrary. elwos applauded every tricks' and beneficial change, and have slims lent our support to every measure of real progress. If c we hove always given our candid opinion after ' or= examinetien of the facts of the case. These measures =not always have produced the good which might have been expected from them. But who would vesture to throw the reeponeibility of this up'n the anion of the governments ? What may truly to snouted is, that all the states, lugs or small, have in our deye to etrupgle armies. powerful obstacles. We have already demonstrated that liberty. as it la understood in Piedmont, liberty, that is, which is litt a else than license, is fatal to the doe respect that should be felt for others, and is produitive of the most merlons inconvenience to neighbouring states. At the lame time we do not lees frankly ackoo Madge that the Pied. montese government is the only judge of what is for the internal goad of its dominion., end we feel that we have no right to impose certain forms of government wpm other Italia' steer, or to point out the particulars In which the system should be altered. The great argument brought forward against the Papal government is that it is unable to rapport itself, and is obliged to rely on foreign assistance. To this we reply that the cabieet of the Vatican lass already entered into negotia tions with both Mattis and France with a view to the eve. creation of the Papal States by the teeing of their countries, and the gradual regenerstlon of the P. nude el army. In affording to the Sovereign Pontiff, despoiled by the revo. lotion, the succour of their arms, Austria end France have promoted the great interest of social order. The temporal eovereigety of the Holy Father tea imamatee for the free exercise of his apestolie uileietry, end for the independence of the spiritual chief cf embalm:Ay._ Nevertheless, on the day that the pontifical government shall declare that the reorga . Bastion of its armed force has made sufficient progress to be enabled by Itself to suffice for the manta of order and internal security, the Emperor. our august muter, will be happy at being able to withdraw his troops, became he will see in this result a new pledge of the paternal ',Banat., which the Holy Father will equally devote to the sucoeseive ameliora tion of other branches re the public service. Do sot let us Monies the difficulties which the pontifical government will have to overcome—difficulties wising not so much from the 'ideation Itself as from the Infiriences brought to bear by foreign governments. To bring about a happy mutt, however, we repeat that nothing more Is nrceeaery then that Piedmont should respect the indepentethe of other states as other states reepei thee owe. It is only whin the' is done that the Papal end other Italian governments will be enabled to aptly themselves eerionsltto the teak of ameliorating the adminatrative system of theintetior. Austria does not meditate any hostile project against Pied mont. She will abeam, notwithstanding the just complaints which she could bring forward, from all arre.sive aetion to the same extent that the government of Sardinia, on Its aids. will respect the Inviolability of the Imperial territory and that of Vs allies. The Emperor, our august muter—your excellency Is authorised to give this uoursnm to Lord Maltosabury—will draw the word only fur the defence of his incestestable rights and foe the malateeance of treaties, which we con sider equally with the British government as the only solid guarantee of political order. TILE MUTINY BILL ~A N. I 2 THE BILLETING SYSTEM. Yesterday afternoon a deputation waited anon the Right Roe. General Peel. the SeareUry of State for War, with refereoce to the billeting grieves.", and the forth wooing Mutiny Bill. Thera were prevent W. IL Maxey, M.P., T. B. Hossfell, H.P., J. Axpinwall Turear, H.P., T. Barb], M.P., Mr. Cowan, MP., and Captain Grey, M.P. The deputation was tent by the Provincial Licessil Vic tuallers' Daises League. Mr, Maessv, M.P., having formally introduced the pm , port of the %Suntory, Me. CANDKLWr4•I4 the select committee, presided mete by General Codrinat on Lot oeseion, proved that the grievance arising from the bilktiog ryatem was one which had exLtsd for a owe-aeon of you., sad the innkeeper of this country had been unable even to canoe en inquiry to be instituted until the present ministry came into office. The all 'wane for soldiers billeted had been raised from lid. to 4d. per day, and gave general astieacti. n. Notwithetanding this, and as mete matters of detail, they whaled te urge upon the government that, In order to prevent the impersonation of pertain billeting, and to make fraudulent alteration in the billeting paper more dfficult, It shall in future be rendered imperative upon "billet matters" throughout the totted Kingdom to have the perdue before them for whom Mere are required mate time of application. and that they shell write, or MUM to be written, mon the billet paper the wow of thane for whom the billet Is required, and the cumber of night. 6.r which it is issued, Instead of figures. It was also suggested that the allowance te innkeeper. for their worn =dialect is futon should be paid by the billet masters, at their Aloes, en presentation of the bi•let pater, at the ex piration of the period f r which it war issued. Mr. Cate &let qu. ted from the report of the aelect committee in sup port of his views, adding the opinion of Sir Richard Mayne, the commiseloosr of polies for the metropolis, that the dietrl bution of billete 'Mould not be in the hands of the pollee. Mr. INGHAM mentioned thee the objections of innkeepers were chiefly against the reception of recruits, for by the facilities afforded by railway., they were seldom troubled with soldiers. During the past you the number of men Wl let,d in Salford was 12,617, or on an average of 24 per day. He supseated the formatiou of barrack IWeWp, In lien of billets to be provided by the innkeepers. Mr. Donn said the innkeepers would rather have a large billegisg-house in the principal teens. General Plum promised to imam official instructions about the mods ot alliog op the billets, and rid when the keepers were reedy with the propoml for billeting they were to comironnicate with him. Re was very rlrl such an ornamented, which wart to place recruits more diet. tually salter military supervision. The deputation then retired. A eiergystaa in the county of Durham lately OOrt• chided mercies isereice with the following words : " Brethren. next Friday is my tithe day, sad those who bring the tithes en that clay shall be rewarded with a good Maser ; but those whe do not sey espied upon motels, • County Cowl nuaskoe• ! "—ifertlipool Mercury.