The Express. — London, England, 1855-03-09 00:00:00

ata a who had boa =soar= or dismissed for oradast pu ss= la as important command, hat 1 think it is sow clout establish= that he has sot bees either oensnrod or iii Thu Ism. sad leaned_ _gentlest= bas /mod as 'pinks =prose= by mss la differs= MU NM as I, on tbs prafsmissal mutts sad dlodnedisd of my sant Mood s Me O. Nigher. 114 I Mad them shine)—bat am pedal Is Ing Sat I thick ..siesta,imony, proilississel sad ability of my rMaid as high sew as as sissmst la wMah m:s i the shatrestiima (Hondas= 47) It has be my tamed l6lll/10/ SU arms mitsiOns Iss in my °Asia capacity try art favainablo aid of Sir . Napier, who has reader= Mist important strevioss by tho able aid dis tinguished maser is which be performed his duty unison than one tiodsion; and it is only due to him to say that nothing has =owned, in my °piston ' In the eosin of the last year, which is the slightest dein, lowers the high aluiractor which he had previously obtained is the Jervis, of his oonntry. (Hear, hear.) The gallant admiral rendered most importaat services in the command of the Baltic Seat, and showed the greatest skill fa 'lnducting his ships through a moat difficult =visa, tits, and brought than back without any injury, under dr tamatasoes whieb, with • maa of less pagan% might have been atteaded with grist and eeriosedisaster. hear) And the gallant admiral has also second the country from all those dangers which might have arisen it the Baltic fleet of Russia had been =mitt= to quit their ports and scour the seas. (Hear, hear.) Having said thus much, I shall only repeat that the motion before the bolus is not en' which they ought to agree to ; but I wish it to be distinctly understood that is segativiog that motion, I do not mom in the slightest degree with an that may base bees said in disparagement of the gallant admiral. Sir C. Napier stands now as high as ever hi did, aid I treat will long continue to be • distinguished ornament to the naval service of his country. (Hear, best.)) Sir J. WALSH thought that Sir C. Napier ought to estielod with the ministerial testimonials he had received in the evens of that debate, and recommended his hoa. sad Learned friend to withdraw hie motion. Mr. MALINS, is reply, said that the noble lord's praise of Sit C Napier had talus the house by surprise ; but still there could be no doubt as to the gallant admiral's dismissal. One of the lords of the Treasury had said that this was a qa•stion which, the more it was stirred, the wove it would appear ; but it would appear that that night's discussion had veaderied the gallant aorairal considerable service. He be lieved that by to-morrow morning Sir C. Napier's pro famlosal character would stand higher than ever. Whenever the day should arrive at which those papers amid he produced without the objection toeing made that they would injure the public srrvice, he would do his best, U he were in parliament, to obtain their publication, feeling rare that they would redound to the credit of Sir Chula, sad to the discredit of others. After some remarks on the Attorney-lienersre 'porch, he referred again to the cone. =codeine, quoted and commented on some parts of it, con tending that, by the letter of the 31st October, Sir Charles Napier wss censured, and that by the letter of the 224 December, as interpreted by that of the 26th, he was dis missed fr.is his command. He also vindicated himself from the charge of having now transgressed the bounds of pro priety in reading some of the correspondence. As for the course be should take on this motion, when the government pledged its word that the documints he asked for could not be produeed without prejudice to the public service, he was bound to attend to such a declaration. Ile thought this discussion would have a good effect, and he was satisfied with its results. Under all these circumstances he would not pans ne motion. Motion withdrawn. CIVIL SERVICE SUPERANNUATION FUND. Mr. MACARTNEY, who had given nctice of a entice for • select committee on this subject, said that, as he was assured by the Chancellor of the Eachequer that a bill was is preparation, drawn up by the late Chancellor of the Eli 'lngest, for the better ngelation of the superannuation fund in the civil service, be would not trouble the house with hie motion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER confirmed the hon. member's statement, that such a bill bail been for some time in precaution, and would soon be completed and ready for presentation to perineum. MILITARY APPOINTMENTS. Major REID, who had notice of a motion for a select committi e en the present mode of conferring appointments in the army, postponed it to some future day. The house then proceeded to the orders of the day. The Minis (Ireland) Bill, and the Jurors' (Ireland) Bill, were read a second time; the Purchasers' Protection against Judgments Bill went through committee. TEA DUTIES (SUSPENSION) BILL. On the motion for the thud readies of this bill, Mr. GREGSON said it was greatly to be regretted that the war expenditure had made it necessary to check the beneficial operations of the act of 1862, by which it was proposed to reduce the duty from 2s. 2d. to le. the pound ; the duty had now come to ls. 61, and the ccnsuniptios had been ii.cressing very rapidly, and he thought this measure required 406111 explanation. Mr. WILSON said that on a previous evening the matter was discerned and fully explained. The hilt wae then read a third time and passed. The Se • f State and Under Secretaries Bill was reed a third time and passed. Several other measures were postponed, and The house rose at half-past 14. ebe Court. The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow, at Buckingham Palace. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. The Right lion. C. P. Villiers, Judge Advocate Glossiest, bad an audirnce of the Queen, and submitted to her Ma jesty the proceedings of semi courts martial. Prince Albert, attended by Captain Du Plat, rode on horseback in the tonaoon. The Princess Royal and the Princess Alice visited the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent's Park. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred visited the Photographic Exhibition yesterday. Her Majesty bad a dinner party in the evening. The company included the Duchess of Kest, the Doke of New castle, the Baron Bentinck, the Netherlands Minister, the Marqu , s of Brudalbane, Lady Fanny Howard,Baroness de Spetb, Viscount Torrington, Viscount Hawardso, Lard and Lady Lyndhurst, Rear-Admiral the Hon. R. Dundu, and Major Maude, Royal Artillery. The bind of the Coldstream Quante was in attendance, and played in the Palace daring dinner. A deputation from the &moral Shipowner' Society had an int. view with Lord Stanley of Alderley, yesterday, at the Board of Trade, on the subject of the Passengers Act. The deputation consisted of Mr. George P. Young, Mr. Anthony Ridley, Mr. William Philippe, Mr. George Mar shall, Mr. Wiliam Bonn (secretary), with Mr. Henry H. Willis (shipowner). A deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Leicester, Mr. Wm. Biggs, M.P., Mr. John Elie, and Mr. Stone (town *fork), transacted business yesterday at the Home-dace, on the subject of the militia searary expense'. Despatches for Lied issammare, Secretary of State for War, from the Ceemenise of the Forces in the Crimes, were brought by amannemser,whe arrived in London yester day mornion, tram OessisitifteSe. Mr. W. P. Releelege bed as interview with the Earl of Clarendon, at the Ireeelswellee, yesterday. The Cabinet Mialeteve dined with the Marquis of Lans downe en Weilseelley evening, at his residence in Berkeley square. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the Governors of Gibraltar, Ceylon, Mauritius, and Hong-Kong. The Cathedral Commission met at No. 1, New-stnet, Spring gardens, yesterday. The Conunissionen present were : the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of Blandford, M.P., the Earl of Harrowby, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Gibed, the Hon. and Rev. H. M. Villiers, the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, the Rev. Canon Selwyn, sad Mr. Henry Kingesote (secretary). Lord John Rummell was ?resented to the Emperor of Austria on Tuesday, at 11 o clock. The noble lord wes present at the baptists of t►e young princes'. THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE DAILY NEWS IN THE ARMY OF THE EAST. The Crimean correspondent of the limes haseaserted, la bis litter of the 19th, that the correspondent of the Doily Nines truly visited the map at Varna, sad was mot with the stray ea its swab from Old Fort to Balaklave. It is due to ourselves to state that we lied two special oorre- spondents in the camp at Varna, to which OUT Danubian somspoodent also paid a visit ; that we ham bad a sprain' eerreepor dent with the army in all its movements fressVanis Is Sebastopol ; and that, though oar principal special cor respondent was, an amount of his health, obliged to proceed by sea il , rect to Balaklava, he has bees with the army ever dais the English mesas entered the harbour. Not one of sur tire* special conespesdesta is the East has eat* left his pat os furlough to CessMatistople, as others have dime mere then once.—Deity New MONTROSE BURGHS ELECTION. Tug ISDAY. rugAL STATE OF THZ POLL. Mr. Baxter Mr Jobs Ogilvy Majority 44 DISMUCTION or um Patin SCIPAW from Mom, to the 18 et Pelewery, 'tato that the ins 101 l of the Petrel (wow eleamed. Sea derma, of Oleegerr, esti& caught the la Doss kialivat ea wswain .1 ths 1111 inst. (es already somelsi Is the Daily Neer) ). Ma soak deeper into the sod. whit her memo. is samosa to b. a total Wm OM v deemed th• Frisch goverment for the eam)eam of brags to the Crises. the enrews. Adverthommts lateaded for . Ito Espana" London Erasing paw, most bo at the Moo. 10, Dourorionwlet, by Two o'clock on tbo day of settisados. HEM WATER AT LONDON BRUME. Tins Day—Kondsi. lin ....AMMON'. 611. toaossow—/landas. A. Aft Mumma, 6b. los. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 9. LATEST FROM ABROAD. The Moniteur uoticra that Prince Gortchakoff lIL had received the renewal of his plenipotentiary powers. A telegraphic despatch from Vienna etatee that Prince Mentchikoff's recall has been officially notified to the Austrian Cabinet. Prince Gortcbakoff IL is to command in the Crimea, and General Luders in Besearabia.—Doily News. BATOIIM, n 3.13. The Turkish steam corvette Taib has brought hither 800 Tunisia& auxiliaries, and proceeds hence for Trebizonde and Bansoum, to take on beard sup plies for tie army of the Crimea.—Dally News. A despatch from St. Petersburg announces that General Rudiger is nominated Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guard.—Daily News. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1855. Is our second edition of yesterday we published the details of a check experienced by the Russians in their attack upon Eupatoria on the 17th of February. . - Their repulse was attended by greater loss than the telegraphic message of oar correpondent (which appeared exclusively in the Daily News of the 24th ult.) led us to believe. Prince MENTCIIIKOFF, io- deed, endeavours, in his account of the affair, to gloss it over, under the pretext that nothing more than a reconnaissance was intended. This story will not pass. It is not customary to reconnoitre with such strong bodies of foot and horse u swarmed round Eupatoria on the 17th, or with 70 or N field-pieces. The object of the Rassians evidently was to recover possession of Eupatoria, and drive the Turks under OMER Peene into the sea before the whole force could be disembarked. In this attempt they have signally failed. In the words of Lord RAGLui, '1 the Turkish troops which have been landed at Eupatoiia - . have availed themselves of the earliest opportunity to show that the character they acquired on the Danube was well merited, and remained unimpaired." Nor is this all. It appears from the despatches of our correspondent—glowing, graphic, and truthful as those in which he narrated the Turkish triumphs on the Danube—that great numbers of the Tartar na tives have sought refuge in Eupatoria, after wreaking their vengeance on their Russian oppressors in a man ner that can never be forgiven, and that some hundreds of them have actually been embodied, as light ca valry, under the standard of the SULTAN. The present position of affairs, therefore, is the Crimea appears to be this :—The Russian troops in the field occupy the tract of country which extends from near Enpa - toria to the Tchernaya, with the stronghold of Sebas topol in front of their left wing. The French and English armies have so strong a hold on the peninsula of Chersonnesus, and have been so far recruited and reinforced that their Commanders-in-Chief feel them- selves in a condition to assume the offensive against the Russian army In the field. The Turks at Eupatoria have established an equally firm foot ing in the north of the Crimea, and • large proportion of the Tartar population ?as declared une quivocally for them. The communication of the Russian force in the Crimea with the empire, by the most direct and practicable line, is thus seriously endangered ; while the Turks at Eupatoria, and the French and English in the Chersonnesus, can receive recruits and supplies, with certainty and ease, by sea. . So far we are entitled to say that the campaign of 1855 will open under the most favourable auspices for the Allies. That there will be a campaign, and an obstinate one, in 1855, appears now to be beyond a desk If the abridgment of the Manifesto of the new Noperor of Russia is made from an suthen de document, he is publicly pledged "to alsomplish the desires and projects unswervingly entertained by PURR, CATHERINE, ALEXANDER, and ear late father." That this representation of the tenor of the Manifesto is correct, we are induced to Wiese from the circumstance to which we adverted in our papa of Monday last; that precisely became AMAMI is " peace-loving—fond of his ease and piamme," he will incline " to fall in with the wishes —te adopt the tone of the persons by whom he is stir "sanded." The powerful Muscovite faction will not allow their new Emperor to give up Sebastopol; the Allies must take it. The triflers in and out of aides, who cannot be brought to see the inevitable character of the struggle in which we are engaged with Russia, and the necessity of fighting it out, must relinquish their dreams of a compromise which they have been indulging. They have bees putting oat feelers in many quarters, with a view to ascertain whether public opinion would not be Wir fled by an arrangement, in virtue of which the CUR would dismantle the fortifications of Sebastopol, aid allow that port, with a limited extent of territory on either side, to be in future a neutral territory, occupied by independent settlements of the psineipal commercial nations. The scheme was claming. It would have led to perpetual jealousies and quarrels among the great powers, and Russia mild have erected another Sebastopol at Koff& But the declaration of the CZAR, that he will adhere to the policy of PETER and CATHERINE, nips the silly pro ject in the bud. The fortifications of Sebastopol must be raked ; and as the only guarantee that they shall not again be erected, the Crimea must be wanted from Russia. Whether it ought to be resbired to the SULTAN-4 measure suggested by the readiness of the Tartar population to enrol themselves in his army, or whether, from a fear that the Porte may not be strong enough to retain it, it ought to be einipsd to Sardinia—for none of the Great Powers esdi take it without endangering the peace of usespe—is a matter for after-consideration. Theft is now a disposition, on the part of some who were loudest in their plaudits when the Allies dlemabszked at Old Fort, to question the policy of the expedition to the Crimea. We confine that that enterprise still appears to us better calculated than any other to inflict a death-blow on the undue pre. redwings of Ramie in the Black Bee. It is the most assailable part of the Rusian empire ; and mom than any other it is that part which gives it the sommand of the Buns. A summary of the 'ep eeists against the expedition will be found in a pamphlet lately published at Bruns* to which mai more importance has been attributed than it melees. As to the paternity of this pamphlet, wadi be rash to pronounce a decided *dem t there are so many clever manufac turers of spurious memoirs and manifestoes at Paris that it may possibly have issued from their mint. Still there are passages in the work that render it by no means improbable that it may be a joint-stock compilation of that eminently silly mid meddling person, Prince Nero Leos, and some of the less scrupulous among his old friends among the ultra-Republicans. The alleged disclaimer of the authorship by the PRINCE, is, to those who know him, •o reason for absolving him from a share in it. This publication seems to aim at establishing two positions. The first is that the EMPEROR, by the policy he hu adopted in the Eastern struggle, has departed from the family traditions, while Prince NAPOLEON has continued to be their unwavering champion. The second is, that Prince NAPOLEON- and neither the late Marshal ST. ARNAUD nor General CANROBERT—ought to have been the Commander-in-Chief of the French army of the East Prince NAPOLEON may have been goaded into such a tacit declaration of war against his cousin by the rumours that the Ex- PIROR has been on the look-out for a more worthy and capable heir to the throne. And it may be that in taking this step he may have obtained the co operation of some intriguatets, who seek to promote their personal objects by clamorous professions of extreme Republicanism. But if such be indeed the paternity of the pamphlet, it is an ill-forged and in effective weapon. Its contents are mainly a r 4 -1 chauffe of the accounts of the Crimean campaign in the official despatches of the Allies and the Russians—the latter being the more libe- rally drawn upon. The only novelties it con tains are some revelations—more or less apo- cryphal—of what passed in the councils of war at Varna, and of the sayings and doings of Prince NAPOLEON there, at Constantinople, and in the Crimea. These revelations, even on the assumption that they are true, prove nothing, except perhaps that Prince NAPOLEON conducted himself at Constan tinople in a way that, had he not been a prince of the blood, would have inevitably led to his being brought before a court-martial. The wresting of the Crimea from Russia is indis pensable to the freedom of commerce and navigation in the Black Bea. That is the first and great object to which the Allies have now to address themselves. The hold they already have upon the country is such as ensures their success if they go to work ho. needy and in earnest. All that seems to be wanted is to adopt energetic measures for increasing their armies to such an extent as will enable them to detach a force to reduce and occupy Odessa, while they urge on their operations in the Crimea. The growing belief that the Emperor of the FRENCH has relinquished his projected expedition to the Crimea puts an end to all the rumours of a serious disagree ment between him and the British Government on that score. The rumour of angry remonstrances on his part against the granting of a committee of in qairy is a topic on which we are reluctant to enter; and weary convinced moreover that, like the others, it will die away. We do not indeed look for any im mediate decisive movements in the Crimea, but our hopes for the campaign of 1855 and ita results are sanguine.—Daily News. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 1855. IRISH JUSTICE. WITH a good deal more of indignation than utonishment, we learn that Mr. Joni CARDEN, of Barnane—the Irish gentleman who wan sentenced to two years' imprisonment for the attempted abduction of Miss ELINOR ARBOEHNOT—has been roloasea from . _ prison a considerable time before the expiration of his sentence. It is true that the favour has been granted under certain restrictions, and in obedience to the advice of his physicians ; but, after making every possible allowance, we are driven irresistibly to the conclusion that this act of the Irish Government is a simple mockery of justice. It is with the greatest reluctance that we find ourselves compelled once more to ail public attention to the disgraceful circum stances under which Mr. CARDEN was brought to trial. The story, however, may be told in a very few words. Mr. CARDEN had been an unsuccessful suitor to Mies Euxoa Atteurfoor, and, finding that he could not win the lady's affections by legitimate means, he bad recourse to a plan more desperate and atrocious than :the most daring writer of fiction would have ventured in these days to imagine. Miss ELINOR Anstrrnear, her two elder sisters, Mrs. Gouou and Miss ARBUTHNOT, together with a Miss LINDEN, are returning from divine service at Rathronan Chapel, in a covered car. When about half way home the car is suddenly stopped by a man mounted on horseback, who rides up and cuts the reins. Mr. CARDEN bursa open the door on the side opposite to that on which Miss Emma Aesuruscrr is anted, and drags Miss ARBUTHNOT and Miss LINDEN out of the car in raosession—Mrs. Outrun managing to make her escape during the nag. He encountered, indeed, no small amount of resistance. Miss LINDEN struck him so violently in the face, that he bled from the effects of the blow; Miss Euttoe Aantrrauvr kicked him in the chest ; and it is certain that, except for the courage thus displayed by his antagonists, he would have suc ceeded in carrying off the object of his fierce enter prise. As it happened, sufficient time elapsed for the arrival of rescue. Miss ELINOR ARBUTHNOT was never dragged from the car—Mr. CARDEN fled, was pursued, and captured. Nor was this disgraceful attempt the result of sudden passion or idle caprice. It was deliberate and premeditated. Every precaution had been takes against failure. Mr. CARDEN had hired a baud et scoundrels to saga him, two of them mounted at horseback, six more armed with pistols and "ekall crackers;" a carriage and four was at hand, and nothing but the sudden intervention of a superior force, joined to the courage of the ladies who were attacked, could have hindered these desperate bravoes from effecting their purpose. The contents of the carriage furnished further proofs of the determined and deliberate character of Mr. CARDEN'S design. Chloroform, iodine, and drugs of various descrip tions, were among the instruments to which this Irish gentleman did not blush to have recourse, in case he had succeeded in getting poessesion of his prize, and still found her obstinate in her refusal to yield to his wishes. Mr. CARDEN was brought to trial, charged with the felonious abduction of Miss ARBUTHNOT. He was only convicted of an attempt to commit the felony, and condemned to two years' imprisonment. Before half of that time has expired he is Mewed from pri son, on condition that he movie' the remaining term of his sentence in foreign travel. And this is celled justice! Six months spent in prison, in the enjoyment, we believe, of every indulgence, is re garded by the Irish Government as a sufficient penalty for the crime perpetrated by Mr. CARDEN. For ourselves, the only thing we regretted In the previous history of the transaction, was the extremely lenient nature of the punishment awarded. We thought then, and we think still, that Mr. CARDEN should have been tried foe the weightier offence. We thought then, and we think now, that if Mr. CARDEN had not been in the high social position that be is, he would have met with a very different fate. Bat the leniency accorded to this " gentle ruffian at his trial is as nothing when compared with the leniency accorded to him since. No one will believe that Mr. CARDEN'S prison life has been the dreary, desolate, hard-worked existence that it Is generally supposed to be. We can hardly imagine, for exam ple, that this favourite of public justice was confined for so many hours a day to the treadmill, or that he fared on bread and water, or that he suffered many of those privations which belong to prison life in general. No, indeed. Justice is always merciful, sometimes tender and compas sionate. Justice—that is, Irish Justice—hovered, like a guardian angel, over the restless couch of her favoured CARDEN, sent him pleasant dreams, and did all that in her lay to undo the wrong that she had been compelled to inflict. And then, when every thing else had failed, when Mr. Csnottx was still sinking beneath the weight of his misfortune, the doors are opened and the prisoner is free. Eight short mouths ago this man was concocting a foul conspiracy against the happiness—it might have turned out against the life—of a young lady. He stuck at nothing. Urged on by the passion, not of love, but of revenge, he dared—so great was his cowardice—to call upon his myrmidons to assist him in his foul enterprise. Eight short months ago! — and the perpetrator of this disgraceful outrage is now as free as the air he breathes. In Ireland this is called justice. It is just to make a broad distinction between a rich and a poor criminal. It is just to punish the poor man to the full extent that the law allows. It is just to release the rich man before he has paid half his penalty. If anything could be added to what we have already said, we could easily draw fresh arguments from the estimation in which Mr. CARDEN'S crime is held by a considerable number of his countrymen. In their eyes the abduction of a lady is no crime at all. Mr. CARDEN is not a criminal but a victim. He acted like a man of spirit. Who wee Miss ARBUTHNOT that she should refuse the addresses of Mr. CARDEN ? Was not he a" raal" Irish gentleman, and she bat a Saxon girl? Such are the opinions professed by some of Mr. CARDEN'S friends, and the ignorant creatures from whom his " bravoes" were selected; and to such persons does the Irish Govern ment pander when it liberates Mr. CARDEN from prison.—Daily News. THE LATE CZAR AND HIS SUCCESSOR. A letter from Vienna, is the Constitutionnel, says " The accession of a new Czar being in Russia almost always accompanied by some political commotion, fears were en tertained in our high regions that, in the present state of excitement in Russia, the sanguinary scenes which took place when the Emperor Nicholas ascended the throne would be renewed. It was specially feared that the Grand Duke Constantine might become the chief of the party of resistance represented by the old Muscovite party against the party of moderation, of which the new Czar has always been considered as the centre of gravitation. The Etonian legation at Vienna has hastened to dissipate such apprehen sions by information of the highest importance. It appears that the Emperor Nicholas was not the lut to perceive the opposite directions to which the Hereditary Grand Dake and the Grand Duke Constantine tended. Foreseeing that this might produce, sooner or later, intestine and fatal conflicts, he took the resolution to make the Grand Duke Constantine take in his presence, on the Holy Gospels, an oath of fidelity and obedience to the heir of the throne. The oath was taken on the occasion of the birth of the fint son of the Hereditary Grand Dake by his marriage with the Princeu Mary of Hesse. It is added that when the Czu saw that his end was approaching he called the two Princes to his bedside, and, before giving them hie blessing, made the Grand Duke Constantine, in presence of his august mother, renew the oath of fidelity to his elder brother ; and he ob tained from both of them a solemn promise to remain for ever closely united, in order to sue the couatry, which is threatened by the European coalition." A letter from the same city, given by the Augsburg Ga:ette, contains a few additional details relating to the death of the late Emperor. His Majesty, it is said, had lately exerted himself to an unusual degree. "One of his Ministers, who had been in the habit of transacting business with him for fourteens hours a day, states that the Emperor surpassed him in activity, and that everything went through his hands. A person who had lately seen the Emperor was astonished at the change which had taken place is his ap pearance, voice, and ideas. The war in general, the details of the war in particular, and the alliances which were formed against him, had shaken his mind. Although ho had acquired by some late events a proof of the resisting force of Ramis, yet the loss of the battle of Inkermann had proved to him the power of the allies, and the last check experienced near Eupatotia bad much affeated him. On Tuesday he was still in good health, on Wednesday he felt himself indisposed, and was compelled to keep his bed ; the rest is known." _ _ A letter from Berlin, of the sth, in the Post Gazette of Frankfort, says:—" The Emperor Alexander 11. has writ ten to the King of Prussia a letter to announce his accession I to the throne, and to beg of him to continue with Russia the relations which existed between the two countries in the time of his father." One of the most moving scenes which has occurred here" sap another letter from Berlin, "in connection. with the death of the Emperor Nicholas has been the celebration of the service for the dead according to the Greek rites, in the chapel of the Russian Embassy. The Grand Duchess Olga, dressed In the deepest mourning, we. present, as was also her husband the Crown Prince of Wurtemberg, the King of Prussia, and all the Princes and Princesses of the royal family. When the liturgy was terminated and the prayer offered up for the blessings of helves on the de ceased, the priests extinguished the wax candles, and the Duchess Olga also extinguished the candle which, according to the rites of her church, she had held in her hand. As she did so, the Duchess, who had previously been deadly pale, threw herself into the arms of the Queen and sobbed aloud." The Belgian liondissir announces that the Court will go into mourning for a month from the 6th, on the occasion of the death of the Cur. THE BALL AT CHARING-CROSS. TO TEI RDITOII OT TEI DAILY NEWS. Six,—Wishing to know the correct Greenwich mean time, I west on Friday last, and again this day, to ascertain it by the ball at Charing-crow, when I found it on Friday nearly a minute too slow, and today Bfq•nine se cond& These are serious errors, and might do great damage to nautical man, likewise to railway travellers. Since the circular was liemd to chronometer makers stating it might generally be depended on. I have noticed it has been much more incorrect than when Bret erected. As It appears likely to deceive the public, particularly those not in the habit of observing by it, the sooner it is exposed the better.—l am, H. FINER. 48, High-Holborn, Mush 7. TILE MINISTERIAL Calais IN BELOIum.- - in% President of the Chamber of Representatives, having Eadhied to undertake the tank of forming a Ministry, the Zing sent for M. Tisch, a member of the Liberal party in the Chamber, and yesterday that honourable deputy had Ss segienee of the Lag. Tin FAREF.EB . CLUIL—The first meeting of the Fosses' Club for this season took place at the Thatched.' beam ea Wednesday—Kr. Palmer, M.P., presided. There were present the Duke of Newcastle, the Speaker of the Meuse of Commons, Mr. Miles, M.P., Mr. Neill, M.P, Mr. Hale, M.P., Mr. Heatehlfull, M.P., Mr. Compton, M.P., Mr. Beggs, M.P., Mr. Joseph Neeld, M.P., awl Mr. Millward. TIN seat smells, will take place on the 28th inst., Mr. Miles, M.P., is the stair. TEI NAVY CLUB.—TM members of this vlYah dined together last evening, at the Thateited-house Tavern, —Lail Aielphus Fascism°, presided. There were pa sust—Ailssiral Deana Dundee, Admiral Sir Augustus CUf. Ks& Mahal Sat Welkin Owes Pell, Admiral Sir F. Pel le% Aids%) Percy Gram, Admiral Fremantle, Admiral Wm Admiral Yates, Captain Richards, Captain Chappell, OWL H.Ossiploall, Captain Lord Assellus liesuelerek, Cap lin Allsomier, Sir William Delia. Captain R. C. Awate, Oemelit D'Hymeart, Captain Chads, sad Captain Origin. The mew First Lord of the Admiralty, the RI& Hoe. eta Charlie Wood, Bart., M.P., emanated Ns (add wen es President of the Based of Trade, yesterday, w 'Ueda. the Bight Baer Sir illitl Otiaga i But. I THE ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL (711.011 Tam SPICILL OF TED DAILY imswe ) BALAIELAVA, Fin 23. . . The late hot w inds have been followed by wind. u cold and westliksr as severe as might have been expected in the las: week in December or the first week in January. The Crimean winter is not likely to leave us without a petting salute, just to keep his " memory green'!in our minds. A hard squally gale from the northern Mapped!, a thin piercing air, and a snow storm. after some days of oppressive heat, and in the midst of our idyllic occupations of gathering [Bowers on the mountain side, will suffice to remind us of this Irons half of Febraary;whenever and wherever the stormy winds do blow ; and this the more as the presset cold weather has about it all the signs of permanence; it has now lasted nearly a week, and makes all prognostics turn out deceitful ; it is likely to continue during another week or fortnight. This is the time for the men to prize and make the most of their fur coats and high boots, and it is a mercy that the arrival of theme necessaries, though late, has I provided at least against this sudden return of all the rigours of winter. The siege has made and is making little progress. In the last few days there have now and then been heavy cannonades on the Sebastopol front—from the town and at the town—but these ephemeral manifes tations of sporadic activity have not contributed to advance the work in hand, and we as well as the Mundane are biding our time for the real re-com mencement of operations. The proposed reconnais sance of the plain has not yet taken place. Bat even without a reconnaissance, we are fully aware of the fact, that since the dry . weather imprcived the roads, large numbers of Raman troops have again taken up their station on the Tchernaya, and amidst the ranges of hills between that river and Samara. Dense columns come over the hills and show on our side of the plain, especially at night, and twice this week Sir C. Campbell's camp and the troops on the hills were under arms all sight, because from eight to ten thousand Russians debouched into the plain ; and, very conscientiously keeping just out of range, thereby kept our batteries and infantry in a state of extreme watchfulness and un profitable excitement —unprofitable, because the enemy returned u they came, without giving our troops a chance of testing the present strength of the Balaklava position. Batteries, too, have been made by the Russians, for the purpose of firing upon Sir C. Campbell's camp, and contending with our bat teries on the hills, and perhaps of protecting their new camp against any attempt of ours to reconnoitre it, and burn it by the way. It remains to be seen which batteries carry the heaviest metal—theirs or ours. It is needless here to enumerate the number and calibre of the guns we have is position on the Balsklava front, though if the Russian spies are worth anything, General Liprandi must by this time be fully aware of our strength in this respect; bat it is most likely on trial the Russian ordnance opposed to us will not be found inferior to ours. Sebastopol is very near, and common sense tells us that with so large an arsenal close at hand, the Russians are not likely to mount their batteries with field pieces. Long 68's and 15-inch mortars are more in their way, and whenever the day of battle arrives, we shall obtain full and convincing, though not very satisfactory, information on a point, on which, at present, opinions aro much divided in Our camp. The last few days have produced so distressing a rumour, that for obvious reasons I can only hint at the circumstances of the subject. It is whispered that an officer, high in command in the French = has been accused of treasonable correspondence the enemy ; that he has been proved to have fur nished the Russians with the exact plans of the siege works in progress, thereby enabling them to destroy those works by mines; that General Canrobert has caused the said officer to be arrested, and tried by court-martial. While I mention the rumour, I must say, that nothing appears to me more improbable than its authenticity. As yet, not a single French officer has volunteered to give information on the subject, and that subject, you must be aware, is too delicate for inquiry. We least of all should throw a doubt on the loyalty, or sport with the reputation, of any of our allies. It so distressing an occurrence has taken place, it will show in General Canrobert's despatches, but for the present I dismiss the subject, while recording my utter dis belief of the truth of the alleged facts. I have now to add a few lines on a subject which indirectly, but most seriously, affects the good fame of the Crimean army and our national reputation in the East. For some time past statements have reached me of the outrageous conduct of several of the English residents and visitors at Constantinople. A friend who lately came up confirms those state ments, and adds to them the result of his own expe rience. While living on board ship, in the Bosphorus, waiting for the departure of the same for the :Crimea, he was persuaded to join a party in a visit to the theatre at Pers. The party consisted of the muter of one and the first mate of another of our first-clue transport steamers, and of several officers of line regiments, then waiting for their passage on board the two ships. They set out at night on a raid rather than a a pV of pleasure. Windows were smashed as they p along ; those unfortunate enough to meet them were wantonly in sulted. Covered with mad, and in a state of the most noisy excitement, they entered the Pera Theatre, but left it soon to get drunk at a tavern., On the way back windows were again broken, the Turkish sentries were insulted at their posts, and compelled to avow that all the "Engiliz" were kw. In short, the whole affair was very much like the amusements of fashionable rakes in the palmy days of the Regency, or the sprees of our worst class of medical students. And such scenes are permitted to be enacted in the capital of an empire for whose de fence we are in arms! The Turks dare not interfere ; even the French think it prudent to abstain from arresting British officers, though I believe no one could really blame their patrols for ar- 1 resting rioters, without regard to the coats those rioters wear. But something, too, might be done on our part ; and if the French petrol the streets of Pera to keep order among the Levantine. and their own countrymen, surely the least we could do would be to add a couple of constables to each ' French patrol, for the benefit of such among our countrymen as require to be kept in order. Unless something of the kind is done, a few turbulent spirits will do more than all the agents and emissaries of the Car; they will succeed in utterly disgusting the Turks and Levantines with the British occupation. Individual wrongs rankle deeper than the harshest measures an imperious ally saa devise. TURKEY. (PROM THE CORRESPONDENT OP THZ DAILY saws.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Fes. 22. Intelligence of the re-construction of the British, cabinet, with Lord Palmerston at its head, reache d' the Turkish government by telegraph on Saturday last. As you are ever anxious to ascertain exactly the state of public opinion in this country, I may mention that perhaps no event since the commence ment of the war has produced such general joy and exaltation among all classes of the Muuniman pope- Wiwi. Next to the prophet of Islam, I really believe that none possesses so much credit, influence, and authority in Turkey as the noble lord now presiding over her Majesty's councils. It is to be hoped that he will fully justify his brilliant reputation by a vigo saes of the war, by . devising a prompt for those vices which exist in every depart mot et the military administration, and by procuring 12 due time, with his anal tact and dexterity, all dim conditions requisite to a lasting and honour able peace. The retirement of Lord Aberdeen from Asa, definitively, it is ardently hoped, or at least as long as the present struggle lasts, has, I need scarcely observe, added much to the universal thanks giving and jubilation of the i prese nt moment. The only subject of regret to all s that this ministerial *volution and the force of circumstances have deprived the prevent administration of one of England's guested eaticeinen—the champion of program, of ea/ors, of dell and religious liberty—and that those very principhs which he has invariably advocated daring a law sod noble career have now unfortu lately had the singular effect of withdrawing him from her Majesty's councils at this portentous crisis. `Tie comeisees that makes cowards et us all. General Niel, aide-de-camp of the French baps- ror, and chef du corps de genie, started yesterday by the packet for the seat of war. He had been de. @patched, you are perhaps awar e , on a spec i a l m i s . awn, with a view of inspecting the works before Sebastopol, and superintending the operations of the siege, in all which . several useful modificati ons h ave been effected. This officer is, I understand, quite epecitzlite in this department of the military profes sion, and you will learn with satisfaction that he entertains not the smallest doubt in respect to the final and successful result of this enterprise. On quitting Constantinople he is said to have expressed himself thus, on taking leave of a friend : " Si jam& vous entendez parley demon retonr ici sachet qne Sibastopol eat tombs." According to the statement of an intelligent and dispassionate Russian officer at Constantinople, there were only three battalions in all to defend Sebastopol, after the battle of Alma ; and he is con vinced that the Allies would have taken the fortress ' without the smallest difficulty, had they pushed on at that time, as was the plan of the ever-to-be lamented Marshal St. Arnaud. We are lorry to hear that there are some intrigues going on at the French court against the heroic General Cenrobert, of whose popularity in both armies I have often had occasion to make honourable mention. The French Emperor, however, will turn a deaf ear to the detractors of this intrepid soldier. Prince Napoleon, it is suspected, was not one of his admirers; and during his stay at Constantinople, if I am rightly informed, be has been often known to make observations tending to justify his own desertion, and throw cold water on this glorious enterprise. Colonel Lindsay, of the Grenadier Guards, has arrived at Missiri's hotel, and brought with him four cannon-balls from the field of Inkermann. The Guards, it appears, from 4,000, are now reduced to 300. This officer has come down to look after the invalids of his regiment, which he supposed to have been stationed at the Scutari hospital, and strange to say, I believe he has not been as yet enabled to ascer tain exactly their whereabouts. $ THE SARDINIAN MANIFESTO. The Piednzontese Gazette publishes the following: Manifesto of the Government of his Majesty the King of Sardinia, Victor Emanuel 11 ., relative to the Acce , sion of his Maje sty to the Treaty of the 10th of April, 1854, be tween France and England. " For a long time Europe has regarded with just and jealous suspicion the continual aggrandisement of Russia, the progressive application of that system which Peter the Great inaugurated, more naturalised in the nation perhaps than in the Muscovite sovereigns, and tending with all the forces, visible and invisible, to the conquest of Ccostanti- Dente, not as a fiaa end, but as a beginning and step to new and more unmeasured ambitions. " These projects of Russia, subversive of the equilibrium of Europe, threatening to the liberties of peoples and the in dependence of nations, never revealed themselves ' perhaps, so clearly as in the unjust' invasion of the Danubian pro vinces, and in the diplomatic acts preceding and following it. It was with good right, then, that France and England, after a long and useless attempt at means of conciliation, had recourse to arms to support the Ottoman Empire against the aggressions of its powerful neighbour. " On the solution of the Oriental question depend the destinies, not immediate, but future, of Europe and of Asia, and, more directly and proximately, of those States border ing the Mediterranean Sea, which cannot therefore remain indifferent spectators of a struggle in which their own vital Interests are concerned, which will determine whether they remain free and independent, or become vassals—in fact, if not in name—of the colossal Russian Empire. " The justice of the Mille espoused by the generous de fenders of the Sublime Porte, the considerations which tell so powerfully always on the heart of the King, of the dignity and of the national indepencis nce, have determined his Ma jesty the King of Sardinia, after the formal invitation which he has received from the two great Western Powers, to accede, by the act of the 12th of last January, to the alliance, offensive and defensive, stipulated on the 10th of April, 18.54, between their Majesties the Emperor of the French and the Queen of the United Kingdom of Omit Britain and Ireland. But before that act received the indispensable completion by the exchange of ratifi cations, before, therefore, it could in any wa) be put in execution, the Emperor Nicholos, lamenting with language not devoid of bitterness, that the rights of nations bad been violated by us, by having (as be supposed), with out previous declaration of war, sent an expedition to the Crimea—accusing the King, besides, of ingratitude In having forgotten the ancient proofs of friendship and sympathy given by Russia to Sardinia—hastens himself to declare war. " Without stopping at the supposed violation of the rights of nations, which could only be au error of the Chancery, we will observe that, with the ancient memories of friendly correspondence passed between the predecessors of his Imperial Majesty and those of his S irdinian Ma jesty, the Emperor might have compared other more re cent and personal recollections of his own behaviour for the last eight years towards the Kings Carlo Alberto and Vittorio Emanuele &mind°. But, first of all, he should have per suaded himself that his Majesty approached this alliance not through forgetfulness of ancient friendship', nor through resentment for recent offences, but from the firm conviction of being imperiously driven to it, both by the general inter ests of Europe and the particular interests of that nation whine destinies the Divine Providence has committed to him; and it is therefore, in taking part in a serious a ar, that the King never doubts the answer to his appeal from the old faith of his beloved people,and the bravery of his soldiers, confiding, as he confides, in the pit, tection of that God who in the course of eight centuries has so often sup ported the monarchy of Savoy in severe trials, and guided it to glorious successes. His Majesty is secure in the con sciousness of having done his duty, nor will so many severe and cruel afflictions diminish his resolution and con. stancy in the defence, with all his power, against all ag gressions whatsoever, of the sacred interests of the people, the imprescriptible rights of the crown. t' While the King d • that the negotiations for peace already initiated in the city of Vienna may be successful, in fulfilment, however, of the obligations contracted towards France, England, and Turkey, he has ordered the under signed Minister to declare, in virtue of the above-mentioned act of accession, his land and sea forces to be in a state of war with the Russian Empire. " The undersigned declares, besides the orders of his Majesty, that the Esequatur accorded to the Russian Consuls in the Royal States should be revoked; the pro perty and persons of Russian subjects nevertheless to be scrupulously respected, and a competent term he accorded to Russian ships to leave Sardinian ports. " C. CAVOUR, the President of the Council, Minister of Foreign Affairs. "Turin, March 4, 1856." GENERAL ORDER TO THE FRENCH ARMY ON THE RUSSIAN DEFEAT AT EUPATORIA. The following translation of a general order ad dressed to the French troops on the occasion of the defeat of the Russians at Eupatoria, appears in the Crimean corres pondence of the Post : " GENERAL ORDER. " ABILY OF THE EAST,—The enemy hare just sustained another check. On the morning of the 17th they attacked Eupatoria with 25,000 infantry, 80 pieces of cannon, and 4,000 cavalry. This corpP, composed of all the reinforce ments that could possibly be brought together at Perekop or from within the Crimea, was vigorously repulsed by the Ottoman troops of the army of the Danube, under the orders of Omer Fiche, General-in-Chief. "On the second attempt at an assault, a column of Turkish troops, rushing out from the place, resolutely charged the assaulting party with the bayonet and drove them hack for a considerable distance. At last the enemy, after a fruitless straggle of two hours' duration, was forced to retreat with considerable loss. This brilliant affair re flects the highest honour on our allies, and worthily conti nues the series of.tbeir successes against the common enemy during the preceding years. " I have the satisfaction to add that the small French garrison, under the orders of Chef d'Escsdron &Etat- Major Osmond, composed of • detachment of the 3rd Natives, and a detachment of naval grassers, under naval Lieutenant de la Case, have vigor.usly sustained the honour of our arms, as well as greatly contributed to the defence of Eupatoria, by the works which they had prepared for that purpose. " This first exploit of the army of his Majesty the Sultan felicitously inaugurates a campaign, the opening of which can no longer be retarded. " Companions in arms ! With unconquerable energy, and a patriotism that has spread your renown through Europe, ensuring you a place in history, you have during one year mastered the very hardest trials to which the organisation end morale of an army can be exposed. These trials are due upon an end. Those which now awMt you are such tee your courage will look upon without alarm. You will NM join battle with an enemy ve how to conquer. The ardent syr accompanies her armies will them, as they have before 9 and glorious sufferings prayer of our Emperor a. your efficiency and powen. " &Wien! Be sure tbe armies, firmly united, will protects the just cause. H Undv stele with an enemy whom you already know tier. The ardent sympathlis willrliffairesknea i her armies will be with .yon i z i ll ia yos, zngiat my have before followed yAgr I sufferings during this waft: . , • im . .„ • ar Emperor are with you ley and powen. • • • i! Be sure the English, • , ay united, will triumph wit) • ' v - MrPr just came. " CANROBIIItic e hp tauten, Feb. x 2,1955."