The Express. — London, England, 1855-02-28 00:00:00

e ats property. The system of obtaining commissions sad promotions by wellies is the main source of this evil, and of many other enfeebling and dermal- Wag influences which now prevail in the army. This lathe tint abuse to be grappled with. We are fully aware of the arduous character of the undertak ing. The sum that has been invested in the parchrse of commissions by living officers does not tall much short of five millions and a half. This Money has been paid with the sanction of Govern mat, and therefore to deprive officers, suddenly mid withouw compensation, of the power of selling what they have lawfully purchased would be downright robbery. Au expedient suggested by a military cor respondent of high rank seems feasible enough—to declare at once that the system of purchase is at an end, and iv+ the officers now living die off to refund to their families the legal price of their commissions when they have been obtained by purchase. The expense would thus be spread over a long tract of years, and the eradication of this moral gang rose from our army ensured. Have our %sisters the morel courage to com mence this reform? Have they the virtue to pass a self-denying ordinance, in virtue of which they shall abstain—for a limited number of years—from all undue patronage of their relations and retainers in the army ? By acting thus—and only by acting thus—can they give what the country will accept as a sufficient guarantee that they are prepared to grapple in earnest with the task of Army Reform. — Daily News. THE SALE OF LIVINGS. Tun system of promotion by purchase prevails in two of the liberal professions in England—in the Army and in the Church. In the Army some at tempt has been made to mitigate the evil by regu lating the terms and conditions of the sale of commis sions ; bet in the Church, the system being only connived at—not recognised—is unreetruined, and, in consequence, covered with parasitical abuses more venomous, if possible, than the stock which yields them nourishment. A cue decided in the Court of Queens Bench, and reported in yesterday's Daily News, will help us to illu-trate thisiposition. The cure of the souls of the parishioners of West Hackney has lately been the object of solicitude to two gcntlemeo, one of whom wished to buy it and the other to sell it. A third party figures in the transactiou, as the negotiator between the two in this sale of souls. The parties most interested in the matter--the inhabitants of West Hackney—were considered to have no concern in the business. Their souls were to be transferred to a new guardian with as little ceremony as bodies are transferred in the slave market at Constantinople. " Tis plea sant purchasing one's fellow -creatures," says BYRON. It is profitable also to sell them, thinks the slave dealer. So thought a certain Mr. LAMB, who looked at the cure of souls in West Hackney as something which might be turned to account. It is true that he had nothing to do with the benefice. He was not the patron. He had no power of selling the living or the presentation. Bat he :`.ought that if he could buy it cheap and cell i :ear , such a process might be as profitable as stock-jo',biog. He accordingly called on a Mr. SIMIP:“ , N, a clerical agent—that is to say, a person who for a percentage will put a clergyman in pos session of the right to occupy the pulpit of a parish church whether the parishioners wish it or not. Any clergyman fulfilling a few formal conditions, by applying to one of these agents, may, for a considera tion, too placed in the most responsible situation in which a human being can be placed. He may be stupid, careless, old, decrepid—his morality may be only skin-deep--his theology may be saperfi cial ; never mind, let him " come down" handsomely, and the spiritual oversight of thousands shall be en trusted to his care. Mr.LAMU, on applying to Mr.Sttir sox, the agent, put to him, according to his own words, the question of the value of a supposititious suburban living. Is other words, he described • suburban living to Mr. SIMPSON as a property that might be saleable. It may be observed that Mr. SIMPSON'S account differs widely from Mr. LAMB'S, but we are willing t abide by the statement of the latter. Mr. SIMPSON, ho said, told him that he had an old friend whom such a living would suit. On the incond meeting he confided to Mr. SIMPSON the name of West Hackney. He then asked the , agent's fees. "He told me his fee was 3 per cent., and a preliminary fee of 21. 2s. I said 5 per cent, was monstrous, and as to the 21. 2s. fee, it would be time enough to pay that when I put my business into his hands." It is evident, then, that Mr. LAMB did contemplate putting business into SIMPSON'S hands. The fact is established that he would have sold West Hackney if he could; but, alas! to this there was one slight obstacle the patronage of West Hackney was not his to sell. Before he could sell ho must buy. He did not buy, and as SIMPSON had entered into negotiations for the sale, he gave directions not to proceed in the matter, u all along it was a contingency, which was now more re mote than ever. According to Mr. LAMB'S own showing, then. be had contemplated the contin gency. He had thought that it might be in his power to sell the next presentation to West Hackney. He must therefore have meditated buying it cheap and selling it dear. It is necessary, however, to take Suirson's story along with Mr. LAMB'S. He stated that in August last Mr. Lams called on him, and told him that he had a living for sale, of about 16,0001. in value, at Idea, in Sussex, and also that he had the next presentation to a living to which be had inducted his brother, and for which he wanted 3,0001. Subsequently SIMPSON was told that this latter living was West Hackney, and he wrote soon after to say that he had found a pinsbaut for the West Hackney living. Mr. Lail fm cared whether the purchaser, the Rev. /MAI RODWELL, would pay the 3,0001. down, or when be got possession? SIMPSON said that Mr. ROD. inui. would be ready to pay 3,0001. if there was a distinct proviso that he could have postman in six months. SIMPSON continues thus: " Mr. LAMB then said, ' I have not been idle about the matter : I have been in communication with Mr. 'l'vesan, the patron, as there was some question as to my title. had been advised that the trustees ought to have con curred in the sale to me ; but I now find that was not necessary.' He then said he should be in town again in a week, but if not, he would send the particulars by poet; and as to possession, he would, within that day month, name the day. In consequence of that, I said, ' I may communicate with Mr. RoDwELL that you will send the particulars within a week, and that within a month we shall know when possession can be given.' " The Rev. JOSIAH RODWZLL, who had been ella mined before, had given evidenoe which tallied in all emential points with that of SrmrsoN. He was told by the latter—who stated that .he had obtained this' information from hfr. Lsmn—that the income was 5401.. and that there was a residence. He paid BLIEPION a fee of two guineas. Mr. Luis after wards wrote to say that SIMPSON was not authorised to sell the living. Before making any comments upon this discredita ble business, it may be observed that the action was 1855. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY Ii7ENING, FEBR UARY 28, broeght by 13111P30N against Lame for a breach of contract. It was contended that a letter to Swam, in which Mr. Lute used exprenioas to the effect that a purchaser would be wanted foe the West Hackney living, amounted to a permission to the former to sell. liiimrsom flock a purchaser, and brings his action for 5 per cent. commission. The jury I seem to have thought that the contract was not made out, but they showed clearly their belief that 131111.- sox was acting under Mr. orders, by giving a verdict for SW. for labour. Details like these, which are constantly appearing before the public, are very sickening, and do the greatest possible damage to the Church. It is the most glaring absurdity to make simony a crime, and yet , allow transactions which only by a mere legal quibble escape being classed as simonises'. It is quite certain that had Mr. RODWELL bought the presentation, all the parties concerned would have been morally. if not legally, engaged in a simoniacal transaction. Ifl livings are to be sold—and they are sold daily—let them be sold formally, with the sanction of the bishops, and in courts or offices appointed for the purpose. Every bishop , knows by what means every clergyman inducted into a benefice in his diocese obtained his living. Every bishop on the bench knows that many of the clergy men in his diocese have bought their livings as truly as if they had paid money for them over • counter. Some are of opinion that in the present state of the English Church it may be that the purchase of livings is a custom which is productive of as much good as evil. They argue that many a religious man of pro perty, seeing no means of finding active duty in a Church the avenues to which are only to be opened by patronage, may do good to himself and to a parish by purchasing a living, or a presentation to it. We confess that we cannot view the matter in this light ; but, assuming for a moment that snob an opinion is tenable, why should a man be obliged to enter into the Church by a lie ? Why should he sneak in under false colours? The laws of the Church are so imperative upon the subject of simony—they are so positive upon the subject of direct or even the most indirect pecuniary payment being made in con nexion with a presentation to a living—that • clergyman, however remotely connected with such a transaction, must look back upon it with shame. In addition to this, public feeling is outraged. la the present instance, here is the purchaser inquiring into the money proceeds of the living, as if there were no other interests than his own in the purchase he was about to make. Here is the would be vendor stating that 3,0001. is the price for a property which the solicitors to the property say is only worth 8001. or 9001. Here is a third party,who intends to get 5 per cent. out of both buyer and teller. And the thing to be sold is the right to take charge of the spiritual education of a parish. Such scandals ought to be avoided. If livings and presen tations—like commissions in the army—are to be sold, let them at least be sold with solemnity and decency. —Daily NM.. of its utility, does it not appear extraordinary that the commanding officer, engineer, quartermaster, and whoresoaver else it may concern,ehould,with unlimited means,'.bays taken three months to do three times the work these ladies did in ten days ? The com mandant nit? "it was a very good thing, indeed, but he could not be expected to be an engineer," and look after it. The engiueer paned it on to some one else, and that some one else did not think it was in his department. In short it was nobody's business; and, now three have been nearly got ready, and will be so this week, is quite wonderful. When I see and hear these things I often think if her Majesty's service would suffer, or what would be the shock to the military discipline of tee British army, if the commanding officer were to make over the re sponsibility to some one of having a useful thing like this finished off in a reasonable length of time. From the one hastily constructed kitchen eight hun dred men are daily supplied with a greater or less quantity of well-cooked food. Of the amount of beef tea served out no account is kept. Thane who are acquainted with the plan of cookery pursued in bar racks, where all a company's meat and vegetables are I boiled in one copper, the portions belonging to messes being kept in separate nem, will know how that food is likely to suit the delicate appetite of a fevered pa tient ; but the means for doing even as well as this are wanting here. No blame is to be attached to the cook, who, of course, is picked at random from any number of men available ; and in this case, and to supply this want, the nurses and Miss Sellon's Sisters of Charity shine, as well as in otherwise attending to the wants of the unfortunate sick. They step into a berth absolutely vacant, and assist the surgeons, not only by seeing that the food ordered is well pre- I pared, but by personal attendance A sick man's appetite is fickle, and a h os pi ta l or d er l y , h av i ng ' many duties to perform, cannot give that immediate attention which the cue may require. At the best of times such delay occurs that when the food is brought the appetite is gone. As it now is, the orderly has only to tell one of the nurser, and imme diate attention is paid. I have heard many complaints' of the ninon, but cannot trace one to anything but prejudice, the style of argument pursued evidently 1 being—" The army never has had female curses, and therefore it is • dangerous innovation, highly to be censured, and at once to be put down." lice of the doctors, who had spoken and written against them, was very thankful, when ill, for their care. Miss Nightingale herself was unremitting in her attention, and closed his eyes when he breathed his last. Our accounts trom the Crimea are, of course, second- hand ; but from all officers I hear but one opinion of the state of affairs there. Ooe who had been with the army from the time it landed, and took part in the celebrated cavalry charge, told me that from the thy before the battle of Alma until he left the army he had never seen tho commander-in-chief. It was reported he was gone to Malta, and all were confirmed in the belief of it by his never being seen. Colonel Airey has for two months been laid up with ophthal mia, but keeps his high appointment. Officers are losing confidence is their leaders, and no wonder, when the chiefs are never visible, and utterly careless of the health and comfort of those under their command. Unless the new ministry take some decided steps, or Lord Raglan alters his plans of proceeding, the army will soon be discon tented and disorganised. FRANCE. (PROM THZ IDENT 01 nil DAILY NZWB.) PARIS, TUESDAY EVRNING. Although many people who are inspired by the opinions expressed by Cabinet Ministers, still doubt whether the Emperor will go to the Crimea, I repeat my impression of yesterday, that the journey is positively resolved upon. An underhand appeal is already made from Mi nisters to the public. Yesterday and to-day police agents have visited several manufactories, and asked the workmen their opinion on the subject, evidently with a view to the concoction of a manifesto. The manifesto will doubtless appear in the Moniteur this week. The sth is still thought the day fixed for the departure. The Bourse was extremely heavy, owing to the in creasing certainty of the Emperor's journey, and was also disturbed by rumours connected with the Brussels pamphlet. The Rente fell 13c., closing at 66fr. 20c. Moat of the railways fell from 2fr. 50c. to 51r. The Constautionnelsays: _ We have received a confirmation of the sad news which has been these two days rumoured about in Paris. The i frigate lost I. the Straits of Bonifacio, is the Shaillante, which recently left Toulon with 400 soldiers on board. The vessel struck on one of the reefs in that passage, and imam dimity Stied. The crew and pameopre, making together 704 men, all perished. No other details have been yet re ceived of this catastrophe. AFFAIRS OF THE UNITED STATES. 0 20 :11 7112 221101 AL NEWS) Or TED DAILY iTENV YORK, Fas. 10, 10 o'C;Ocx M. O no form in ohtich Know-Nothiogism is making itself felt upon the financial interests and classe: of this country, is in a movement for taxing foreign capital, which has hitherto contributed little or no king to sustain the state governments. Up to the present time several hundred millions of dollars of European capital, invested in American commerce, has escaped taxation. The laws of New York have not exacted from foreign mercantile houses, or their representatives, that tribute which our own citizens pay. The partners or agents of foreign houses, who are carrying on very heavy business, by residing out of the city of New York, are enabled to evade the letter of the law, although in direct violation of its spirit. Personal taxation escapes them, and they escape personal taxation. Laws will undoubtedly soon be enacted to reach their case. As there are only twenty days more left of the session of the present Congress, it is not believed that any change is likely to take place in the tariff of 1846 ; while it i s entirely certain that the next Con gress will be more deeply imbued with the spirit of protection than the present. It may be safely pre dicted that the friends of free trade can resign all hopes of any further progress in that di rect i on among our Congresses, for some time to come. Indeed, several important movements are now in pro gresa, which will enable the separate states vir tually to prohibit the importation of foreign manufactures, where they compete with our own, although the constitution of the United States has vested this power solely in the national Congress. Iu every state applications are made for charters tor new railways, or for modifications in charters already granted, or for liberty to make loan., so that in some form or other legislative authority is continually in voked for railroad companies and chartered institu tions of every description. It is clearly within the authority of the state legislatures to grant or withhold the privileges petitioned for. These legislatures can and will affix such conditions as they please, and in some cases they will grant the privileges asked for only on condition that these railroad companies use none but American iron. At an early day in the pri sent ses sion of Congress, leave was asked to introduce a bill remitting the duties on railway iron ; but permission was instantly refused. Leave was then asked for introducing a bill to postpone the payment of cus toms already due, or which would be due when some millions of railway iron were taken out of bond. This was as peremptorily refused. In a recent letter I re marked that Europeazi might with 'some advantage to themselves tun their attention to Kno w-Not hi ngi sm in the United States,for it is certain to affect European interests and European policy, to some extent at least, for the next few years to come. My anticipations in regard to the financial affairs of the country have been fully realised. All signs of the late panic have disappeared—confidence is being restored, stocks of almost all kinds have gone up, importations have declined, economy in the administration of corporate institutions, as well as private life, has produced a marked effect, the spring business is beginning to open, the high prices of breadstuffs, and all the products of the sail, have enriched the rural district., and we now universally feel that our financial troubles are over, and of course we enter upon another florid period of prosperity and speculation. One of the most striking features in the money market during the week has been a decline in the redemption of the public debt by the Treasury. The official report of the revenue for the last quarter shows only fourteen millions, embracing four millions from public lands, and other sources than Customs. I can hardly describe the feeling of disappoint ment, of mortification, and alarm which pervades the United States in reference to the position of the British army before Sebastopol. Indignation against the British ministry can hardly be greater in London than in New York. The break up of the cabinet, by the resignation of Lord John Russell, was every where entertained with satisfaction. It is certain that we find it difficult on our side of the Atlantic to account for the fact that the mighty energies of the British empire have been wasted away in this terrific manner before the walla of Sebastopol. We ask, how long this is to continue ? We inquire, what causes can be assigned for such a state of things , as you describe in the Crimea? We ask why the French army seems to be so much better appointed ? Why their men suffer so little, comparatively, both ' in battle and in camp ; and we are forced to the con clusion that since British valour has not been called in question, there must have been the worst possible management on the part of those who have carried on the war. There has been no such drift of Ameri can sympathy for Russia as your journals complain of, although it is not to be denied that your bad management has coat you that warm feeling of sympathy, which came from our hearts involuntarily, when we knew that the Anglo-Saxons of England had landed in the Crimea. The Americans now think that Russia understands the art of war better than England; that her officers are abler men ; or, at all events, that they have seen more service. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMISALIT, FEB. 27. APPOINTEIENTS.—Lieu tonarit J. J. W. Jarvis (1850), to the Coast Guard. Master of as Flat K. Stokes (1840), to the Duke of Wallington, 131, screw steam ship, of Zoo hone power, in the Baltic. Muters J. N. Willis (1846), to the Hecate, 6, paddle wheel steam ship, of 240-hone power, Mediterranean statics; and W. Mills (1812), to be additional to the Iff=42, at Woolwich. Master J. H. Ryan (18.51), to the Volcano, 3, paddle-wheel steam venal, of 140 hone power, at Woolwich . Naval Cadet H. T. Stephenson, from the Tartar, 20, mew steam corvette, of 250 horse power, at Chatham, to the Royal Albert, 121, screw steam ship, of 600-horse power, ha the Black Sea, for disposal. THE COMMANDS IN TEE CRINKA.—Sir George Brown hujoinsd the army, and resumed the command of the Light Division. General Jones, k 8., hes taken charge of his duties. The changes in the army are—Sir Colin Campbell to have the First Division; Sir John Campbell the Highland Brigade ; General Bentinck to command the Fourth Division; General Barnard a brigade of Fourth Division. The following, it is stated, are the arrangements, regarding, the reserve force for the army in the Crimea. The provisional depot will consist of drafts of the three bat talions of the Guards and 40 battalions of the line, now In the Crimea, to Constitute the first reserve force; aid the proportion of officers to each draft of the depot is to be (ultimately) 1 major, 6 captains, 12 subalterns. Die. tribal:ion of companies, 8 in the Crimes, 4 at Malta, 4 at home, so as to have 2 supernumerary captains, and 4 ditto lieutenants at Malta, and 4 ditto lieutenants with head quarters in the Crimes. The immediate strength of each draft at Malta will be-2 captains, 4 subs., 6 sergeants, 122 rank and file, and the whole forte at Malta will number 6,160 rank apd file. The 43 drafts will be formed into as many . provisional battalions as there are divisions in the Crimes. The battalion, for each to be commanded by a major, and the entire force to cow Tries 2 commands, under Brigadier Generals Williams and Rumley respectively. Lieut.-General Ferguson, on the staff at Malta, to have the chief command. The reserve atl Malta will be detailed off into five provisional battalions, corresponding with the number of divisions in the Crimea, and they will be drilled and exercised in all camp duties,l rifle practice, for which 10,000 smoothbore percussion muskets are in requisition, pitching and striking tents,cook ing, and the officers and men are to be placed under canvas and huts alternately. No soldier under 18 years of age is to be drafted to the army in the Crimes. Colonel Alexander M. Tnlloch has proceeded to 'Turkey on special service with Sir John Manned. Captain Hutton, 31st Regiment, has been ap pointed to serve on the staff of the army in the Crimea, as Idetruty assistant quartermaster-general, and is to be at ; tar.hed, in that capacity, to the land transport corps. I The government has entered into an extensive vontrset for the supply of Minbi Mu, rifles for the use of the Rib Brigade and 60th Royal . Rifle Regiment, and riled carbines for two cavalry guanas, which will hi designated " Mounted Riflemen ." This fatter branch of the Nevin was found to be most efficient in the campaign► on the Rhine in the years 1793 and 1794. A large contract for eareby sabres, lobar pistols, and lances, has also been alined to, in Mho W place the cavalry arm of the service en the most ARAM hating. A quantity of musquetoons, =oatbrass, banding pikes, and tomahawks have also s tilesmi Re the navy, the greater portion of which are M be isliverod into store at the Tower, by the middle of lbws are 220 new horns in training at the e M 0.- amiss barracks, and 140 recruits. A detachmnt will Who* be sent to the Crimea in the course of next meth. • Weep eargeaat-major is also at Manchester as quarter finals% fez a field train, which is forming there, for the PQM Of @gaming stores to OW sal in the AO& LETTER FROM A PRIVATE SOLDIER IN THE CRIMEA. fit evnenitroostrottsf Fi.n,:aftothrrrnoezripaCgnyriydommue h a o , ott b: el f r o ,a re :l flo getak b t as tine to gt po ohne l . , pl P refth eb ay . ne 7, tr y poi ;ay : Ton since I arrived in the Crimea, one written to Widmer, two to Portsmouth, an d two in answer to the two I wrote from Constantinople. I n one of the lettere directed to Portsmouth there were te n stamp . , but they were spoiled with being damp, and stuck to t h e l etter. But in the first of the last two letter * there were thr ee stamps all right, which you will find on the .:lotside of tide letter. We left Constantinople on the 3rd of Ineusr7,, and arrived in Belaklava all right a few days after. We dis embarked and joined our respective regiments. Out regi ment is pitched right opposite Sebastopol and n VAR any other in the field, and I can enure you there is nothing enviable in our position. The evening we arrived was dreadfully cold, and we had to pitch our own tents, as the old part of the regiment were clean worn out : most of them wire sick, and the others are as bad. We managed to pitch our tents some way or another. In the first place we had to shovrl the snow, and when you had got it all cleared away you could see your bed—it any rate the place where it was to be made. After marching from Balaklava, a distauce of nine miles, with • heavy lead, you had to make your bed on the cold wet ground with your great coat and one blanket, and nothing to eat or drink except a dry biscuit and cold water—not much of a delicacy. But we got the first night over, and the day atter we began to make improvements. We dug the inside of the tent fourteen inches deep, which left it tolerably dry, and put a trench round the outalde to keep out and carry off the water; aad with the warm clothing that has been sect out for us, and the small allowance of rum (which is • principal thing here), we manage to get along better than we expected. In the first place we have our own great coats made of thick grey cloth ; and next, a large sheep or goat-skin coat, with all the wool on (not very neat or dressy, to be sure), but very beneficial, which is all that is required here. In the next place we have boos made of strong yellow leather, which come half way up our thighs, in the real cavalier style, and splen did fur caps, that cover your ears, and turn down on your neck, and a great number have oil-skin coats to cover the whole ; four II innel shirts, two pair of flannel drawers that come down to your feet, woollen gloves three pair to each man, and every other comfort that expensive c:othing can contribute. All our razors are thrown away, and, with the clothing I have mentioned and our long beards and moustaches, you can form some idea what a figure wo cut more like Esquimau: or Lap landers than Englishmen. Ile is an ungrateful wretch who is not thankful for the benefits received, as • great part of them are sent oat free, which is an honour to the nation, sad of inestimable value to the troops, as the clothing has saved thousands of lives; till we are losing a great number by sickness, die:nines. being the only complaint. In my regiment we are losing ten or twelve a day. Rum is served to us twice a day, and three times when we are in the entrenchments, which is a great help; it warms ue, and helps to keep up our spirits ; and I can Bay I have not heard of such a thing as teeto talism since I came on the island. With respect to myself, I never was in better health or spirits in my life. The only thing I dislike is the rations. Nothing but hard, dry biscuits, and salt pork or beef. Such a thing as bread we have not had since we left England. iln Constantinople we ordered fresh meat during the time we remained in harbour, and the rascals sent us two dead comas, nearly all bone, and not a pound of fat in the two. They must have walkt d the bills of Scutari a long time, anil I have no doubt they were two very ancient animals, u we could neither cut, saw, nor tear them; and since we came up here we have had no fresh meat, except a few sheep the Sultan sent up, ablut the size of doge. Our commissariat is ab minably mstmed. While we are starving on dry sea biscuit, the French have erected bakehouses on the hills which supply the men with fresh bread; and the officers are buying it of them at the rate of 3s. the loaf that weighs between 2 and 3 lbs. But the French are superior to us for a campaign ; they have no mains', being bold and determined, and if they cannot get what they want by fair means, if it is there, they will have it by some other means, whether just er not ; with respect to the Turks they are neither one thing nor the other ; they are too lasy to do anything hut smoke. I cannot tell what the men are that ' • " " are with Omer Pacha, but what we have here seem to be neglected in every respect, badly clothed and badly fed, and lost in dirt and filth, which appears to be quite natural to them, and they are despised and knocked about shamefully, especially by the French. But the most of them are kept in Balaklava, doing all kinds of fatigue work along with the Tartars, who are inhabitants of the place; they wore for small wages at making roads and unloading vessel.. The Tartan are short, thick .sot men, with heads as large as a bag of biscuit, and apparently devoid of all in telligence or sensibility—mere automatons, that drag on from day to day without a thought for to-morrow. Balak lava is an awful place, up to the knees in dirt and puddle. It would haw; been a eery pretty tillage had they let it staud as they found it ; bat they expected to take Sebastopol in a few days, and consequently they knocked down the houses, and now they find the loss of them. Lord Raglan's quarters are very pleasantly situate, being at a farm houio of the second class. But all the other officers have to live in tents the same as ourselves ; but I must close the letter for the present, as it is four o'clock in the evening, and I have to go into the trenches at five o'clock, and pan another night of danger and difficulties, and if I live to come out I will continue my writing, and give you some de scription of the entrenchments. Wednesday Morning, Feb. B.—l promised to Give you some account of the entrenchments. In the first place we have to enter and leave under cover of darkness. As soon as it is dark we march silently down, and relieve the men that entered before daylight the same morning ; if we were to enter by daylight they would destroy us before we could get in. But, once we get in, we are tolerably safe, with great care. The Russians commence firing as soon as it is dark ; they fire Millie ball, cession of all sites, rockets, shell, end all kinds of missiles that are in use ; bet prism pally shell. They pitch them in all directions, but, for tunately for us, we can see every shell leave their mortars, and the directions they are pitched. The fusee is burning, and we can see the process from starting until they alight. They have to pitch them very high in the air, on account of our trenches being so very near, so that they may drop into them, and they will take half a minute in their progress, which gives us time to alter our position; and another thing in our favour, they throw them with very little accaracy, very few of them taking effect. I counted six shells in the air all at once last night, all of which either dropped short or overshot the mark. But lately they have begun to fire a volley from their cannon instantly after their shells, which is very dangerous, as we cannot see the black boys, and they fire them very accurate; snd the only way is to keep our hunk below the trench. Last week we bad two men killed by a shot striking against a rock and splintering it; but we are so used to them, that we take very little notice of them, as they never cease daring the night, and I have seen men asleep in the trenches whoa the very ground has shook beneath them. We had four or five killed a few days ago who had laid themselves down behind a pile of muskets. They were asleep, and a cannon shot struck the muskets and knocked theta men's brains out. But those cues are all carelessness. Our batteries an doing next to nothing at present, but they are in admirable order. We have a 24.g0n battery ready for opening that can play upon their shipping, and what is the Teasels they do not work them 1 do not know; but I think it is of very little use, as they can fire six guns to our one.. and unless they find some new or novel mode of operation..? they might as well keep quiet, as by_ all appeareace. Sebastopol will stand as long a siege as Troy, which wee besieged for ten years. The French keep up a constanc cannonade, which is of no use, as what damage is dams by day is repaired by night; and if we fire a few sharp shots, we draw down upon ourselves a firs that is like hell opening. The very ground shakes for miles round, and shell and cannon balls fly is all direc tions like hailstones. While I am writing ne•Re beg some in that, last night, 36,000 Russiae.• sur rounded Selektive. They expected an earagement. Last night or early this morning one of the Rues,.an officers al deserted and cams down to Belit t lers, from whom our officers got a great deal of I, sa ble news. They turned out all the sailors and marines in the hartocr, along with all the regiments in the neighbourhood, being the whole of Bir C. Campbell's Division, consisting of the Highland Brigade. This morning we could see them on the hills scat tered in all directions, aid our men an in readiness to re ceive them and every hour we expect orders to join them. There is a t remendous fire going on from Behastopol all day the very tent shakes as I am writing. We t o ea u sty t l. attention from Balaklava ; but it is Of. no use. The weather is beautiful, and, if they commence they will get Inch a drubbing is they little ex p ec t. The French are Marching over the hills to strengthen oar most dangerous positions. We are &tag off our muskets and cleaning them that they may he is working order, and apparently they contemplate Kane serious operation. But I must close this part of my letter, arta if anything particular omen I will write sgsin,—l remain you son, Q.1101113X SAYILLE. i .~ Vbe court, The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Doke of Cambridge, and attended by the Viscountess Can• Ding the Hon. Mary Seymour ' and Captain the Hon. D. de lioe, inspected the Model of Sebastopol sad els* the Great Globe, in Leicester squire, yesterday afternoon. Prince Albert rode on horseback in the forenoon, attended by Captain the Hon. D. de Roe. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majeaty. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prinoeu Alice, honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their presence in the evening. The royal suite consisted of the Viscountess Canning, the Hon. Mary Seymour. Earl &men, Lord Alfred Paget, and Captain the Hen. Dudley de Roe. Viseountees Canning has succeeded the Countess of De in ea the Lady in Waiting to the Queen A deputation from the 'Medical Council of the General Board et Health had an interview sterday with the Pre sident of that board at his Mlles, Whitehall. The depute. ties consisted of Dr. Paris, Mr. Lawrence, Dr. Alderson, and Dr. Farr. • deputation from the authorities of Eton College also bad en interview with Sir Benjamin Hall, at the Office of the General Board of Health, in reference to the drainage, &c., of Eton. The deputstion comprised the Provost of Eton, the Rev. J. Wilder, Fellow of Eton; the Head Mu ter, the Rev. Dr. Goodford ; the AseiCtant Master, the Rev. William Johnston; Mr. Thomas Batcheldor,the Regis trar of Eton College ; and Mr T. Howell Stevens, the Sur veyor of the Eton College district. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the Governor of Vancouver's Island. (Pram last alibi's Casette.) LORD CIUMBRILLAIN'S OFFICE, Fas. 26.—Notice is hereby given that her Majesty will hold levees at st. Jesnes's Palace, on tho following days, at 2 o'clock : Wednesday, the 7th of March neat; Wednesday, the 14th of March neat. Deur:Cowan. THE Hole. Huoa PERCY anted at the Sul of Beverlay's 'mansion ' in Portassa-sonare Monday, fro st the Crimea. This gallant oiliest has been through the whole of the campaign, and was wonisded both at the Alma and at lakermann. In the former action ha was shot through the arm ' and at Inkerusann be sustained • seems wound on the temple, apparently from • flint stow Col. Percy leaves town tZ-day for Torrey, when the Ball of Beverley has hoes staying since Christmas. - - STIALINGIIRUIE EIhECTION.—Ths nomination for this west, takes plus am Monday nazi (6th Much). It is Waived that Mt. Blackburn, of Killeen (conservative), will be allowed to walk Um coarse. Ms. Joss BEssow, M.P. for Dudley, died at Haab:goon Saturday last, at the advanced age of 87. Mr. Benbow was formerly a solicitor in extensive practice, and wee first returned for Dudley in 1844. He was a director of t►e North Western and the Shrewsbury sad Birmingham Railways. The newly-appointed Governor of South Australia hu received the honour of knighthood from her Majesty. Sir Richard M'Donald has been Governor of the British possessions on the western coast of Africa, of St. Lucia, and of St. Vincent. He is the son of the Provost of the Dublin Unfunny. The Rev. Edward Constable Alston, M.A., has been instituted to tin Reiftey of Denningtoa, in Suffolk, on' his own petition. Also the Rev. Hugh Francis Rose, M A , has been instituted to this Rectory of Homerslield, with Sanderoft, otherwise St. Cross, in Suffolk, on the presenta tion of Sir Robert Shaft° Adair, of FR:ton-hall, in the said county, Bart. MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS. (Pres the Globe.) Mr. Vernon Smith has accepted the office of President of the Board of Control, and a new writ for Northampton will be probably moved for this evening. Mr. Denby Seymour, we believe, succeeds Mr. Lowe as Secretary to the India Board. No vacation of his seat results from his acceptance of WIN. Yr. Villiers, who was offered the Vice-Presidency of the Board of Trade, we understand, decline, that office, and retains his present post of Judge Adulate General. Mr. W. Cowper succeeds Mr. Fitzroy as Under Secretary of State for the Rome Department ; and Sir Robert Peel will probably go to the Colonial-office as Under Secretary. Mr. Monkton Mines has declined the Secretaryship of the Treasury, rendered vacant by the resignation of Lod Alfred Hervey. In f fling the Secretaryship of the Ordnance, Lord Patternless was unions to avail himself of the Dasi• 114118 experience of Mr. Laing, whose aid in arranging the future operations of the tate la ceasselon with the war &primate would, doab Wm, have been most valuable. The extent of that gent lames commercial undertakings, however, obliged him to decline the offer. The Secretary ship of the °Masao% therefore, as well as the office of Vioe•President of the Bard of Trade, a Lordship of the Treasury, sad a Lordship of the Admiralty, remain vacant. THE FORFARSHIRR BURGHS. THE WAR. DESPATCH FROM LORD RAGLAN. (FROM LAST MORT'S OASITI2.) WAE DEPARTMENT, FIB. 27, MS.. Lord Penman has this day received a despatch and its enclosures, of which the following are copies, addressed to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, by Field-Marshal the Lord _Raglan, G.C.B. Before Bebutopol, Feb. 13,1855. I My Lord Duke,---I mentioned to your Grace in my despatch of the 10th instant, that there had been a return of bad weather, and that the country wu again saturated with wet. On Sunday it rained or snowed from morning till night, and the wind was very high, and though it was fine yesterday, still the ground was in &worse state than I had seen it for some time, The enemy has made no movement. Major-General Jones, Royal Engineers, arrived a few days ago, and is busily' engaged in making himself acquainted with the position occupied by both Armies. Lieutenant-General Sir George Brown has also returned, and, I have great satisfaction in adding, in excellent health. his wound is healed, and, with the exception of not having entirely regained the full use of his elbow, he no longer suffers any incon venience from it. He will resume the commend of his division with- it load time. I enclose the return of the casualties to the 11th instant. I have, &0., RAGLAN. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c. RETURN OF NON-COMNISSIONID OFFICIRS AND PRIVATES KILL= AND IFOIasDED, FROM 9TM TO IITIL 1911311XANT, 1955. INCLUSIVE. BI Foot. Joseph Godfrey, 47th Regiment of 1 1 017NDED.—Privre Daniel McMahon, 88th Regiment f Foot, 'evenly; Lance Corporal Joseph Mee, 55th Regi meat of Foot, slightly. Prince Peter Gortchakoff, the elder brother of the general and the diplomatist, has been appointed to command the government of Czernoguw. The go vernments of Vorozege and Kourak have been placed under martial law, in anticipation of invasion. A telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, Feb. 25, given in the Independence, says: - - An Austrian circular despatch has been issued, dated February 17. It declares that the rigorous execution of the,' decision of the Frackfort Diet relative to the preparations cf war of the Federal army is a question of honour for the States of the Confederation. At the same time the circular . criticises the grounds of the dietal resolution, and endea vours to prove that the demand of Prussia, that the Federal contingents should be held exclusively upon the territory of the Confederation, at the disposal of the Federal Assem bly, is impracticable. TURKEY. (PROM ii 'OI4DBAT OF TEE DAILY NIMBI CONSTANTINOPLE, FIB. 15. Within these last few days, a rumour has been afloat in respect to the approaching retirement of Lord Redcliffe ; and it has obtained some degree of credit in consequence of an announcement to that effect in a respectable London morning paper. Gene ral Rose, in this eventuality, is also reported as destined to the succession. I merely allude to this ' matter as one of vital importance at the present mo ment, and with reference to the necessity imposed on our government, in case even of Lord Itedeliffe's tem porary absence, to appoint some one whose skill, tact, and ability, msy be equal to the exigencies of the situation. We have, no doubt, many able diplo matists; but did 1 presume to offer an opinion on this subject, it would be that there is not, perhaps, one amongst them so well suited as General Rose to the peculiar and exceptional duties of this post at the present momentous crisis. The representative of Great Britain, it is quite evident, were be no better than Alexander's horse, will at all times panes his weight and authority in the councils of the Porte; but there is besides what is called personal influence, and which in this country, more so perhaps than in any other, is of very great importance in facilitating the progress of diplomatic transactions. This ad vantage General Rose possesses in an eminent degree. He has a dash of the Oamanlee a sort of suaviter in ntodo ; and, u I have already noticed, no representative of her Majesty has been more deservedly popular at Constantinople. All the great functionaries still speak of him with the highest esteem and regard, and he has acquired, moreover, the reputation of a great and skilful diplo. matist, owing to the well-known tact of his having foreseen and foretold, at the very outset, the whole object of Prince Mentchikoff's miasma, and the whole history . of the calamities impending over all Europe. There is, besides, another circumstance not unworthy of attention in respect to General Rose's aptitude for the pat of ambassador at Constantinople. Having, during his residence in Syria, acquired the Arabic language, he was thus enabled, in a very short time, to explain himself perfectly well in the vernacular idiom of this country without the incumbraace of a dragoman, and, I believe, to read and comprehend all documents transmit ted to our embassy without much difficulty. Lastly, I may add, that General Rose lived always on terms of friend ship and intimacy with the present French chargé d'affaires, M. Benedetti, and with all his colleagues— with every one, in fact—which excludes the pos sibility of factions opposition in the prosecution of offidal duties. Let me not omit to mention also that he is a soldier, and, according to the accounts of French officers, a brave one, too • and coming fresh from the camp,his opinion would necessarily have great weight, and he adopted without hesitation by the government in all matters relating to the vigorous prosec ution of the war. Under these circumstances, ihre be any chance of Lord Redcliffe's retirement or absence, the most experienced men with whom I have conversed all concur in thinking that our government could not possibly make a better choice than General Rose for the post of ambassador at Constantinople. THE HOSPITAL AT SCUTARL NEWS FROM THE CRIMEA. TO TIII EDITOR 07 TAM DAILY NEWS. Slit,—The victory of Omer Pacha over the Russians at Eupatoria wee gained on the 17th inst., and an mount of it appeared in the Daily New on t►e 24th inst. It is interesting, and important, that this public should I e aware that sews from the Crimea can reach Loudon in 7 days. The news of Omer Pacha's victory was received in England quicker than any previous news from the Crimea. - Lord Raglan's despatch, announcing the defeat of the %Lukens by the Turks at Eupateria, and which first enabled your contemporaries to anemones the fact to the public, was pub lished on the 26th inst., or nine days after the battle was fought. A CONSTANT READER. February 27. The King of the Belgians came to Brands from the Palace of bakes on Sunday morning, and gays a pri vate audience to Loyd J. Russell. who had jut arrived in company with Lord Dafferin, Mr. Eliot, and Mr. Slog. The interview between the King and Lord J. &smell lasted a considerable time, after which his Majesty returned to Leeks's. Lord John left for Berlin on the following morning. M. itfouno.—Many wonderful stories have been told «amnia( this remarkable Italian, but few equal the following which we find in a letter from Besse to the Echo du Most Blow :—" Haman' profited by the arrival is the capital of the Christian world of a great number of prelates __.,Aniurr OP run D/LELY micro.) to introduce himself there under an episcopal disguise. la CONSTANTINOPLE, FRB. IL spits, however, of all his precautions he was recognised As I leave this morning for the scene of more and pointed out to the polies ; but the head of that admix 1 active operations at Balakiava, I will make such abolition—either through that weakness which is the additions to my observations on the Scutari hospital thuacterietie of the employes of Italian governmenu, who as may put you in possession of all particulars con- disgracefully traffic with all parties, or buses he belonged I noted with that place. The additions to the sick to a secret society, or again from a fear of being stabbed for are about eight hundred per week, and for this performing his duty faithfully—tolerated the residence of quantity there are three outlets ; via., to the front this dangerous pence at Rome without pointing the fast oat (or active service in the Crimes), to England in- ta the proper quarter. This chief of the police was arrested 'elided, and to the burial ground. A detachment oar the 12th for having acted in that manner." leading from the Crimea is a piteous sight—the hol- AUSTRIAN ITALY.—We find the following in the 'low cheek, the wan face, the sunken eyes, and above mash Gasdla on the late insets at Milan :—.. About five all the patient fortitude with which sufferings are or six weeks ego the police at Milan noticed the proem* of borne, would move the hardest heart. I have some suspicious characters, who were arrested, and the an. watched many landing, but have scarcely heard a thoriti« were thus put on the trace of • vast Musician groan or murmur of impatience. Whilst any .h O P OI conspiracy, of which ample proofs were soon discovered. In are entertained of a man being recovered suftiently th„hort apace of 10 or 15 days, there were arrested quietly I for duty he is never sent away from the Crimea, and in Milan and the neighbourhood about 40 persons, some of SS A general rule the] are sent away to the rear only whom belonged to t h e uppi, claims o f soc i ety. Th ee were to die. I have h of one ship on board which one au conveyed to Meatus, ohm the tribute' charged to take hundred and six breathed their last, and were cognizance of „t o of hi g h wow ., h o m e its sitting ,. The thrown overboard, between Balaklava and thin ramilicatiens of this Musician plot do not appear to extend pima Thom who do arrive here are well tended, over the Venetia* territory, but only to the Duchies and in Med although comparatively comfortable beds,warmth, the States of the Church. The late attempts at Parma, mid good treatment do much, still the mortality is Curare, Puna, Fora, and Bologna had a certain con. einiething dreadful. Fifty-three a day is under the silos with the great blow which the e: - triumvir wished milk for this month, since its commencement . commencement . , ' a to strike In Italy at the oommencoment of this mouth." have to men in hospital, as well as to Sraii.—The Madrid journals of the 21st inform say the same thin g , and I F" as that Guard Pommel Real had bola arrested, sad plared gni OM have been well and kindly treated whilst i, oast sen i iimcsa ti a the Owe. ea PeaSiStr.S of Hies the surgeons' are. Ships constantly arrive having bus assolasa is t hi so lit 7 the newly dioor,vered id* sick, when there is no room for them until the Carlist pieta TM Boom lain that the sows of the op. beds in the wards are emptied, either by their coon- toonfota of lb, Osman de Vista Aler,re, eldest pants being sent to some of the other hospitals in Vet Qum Millis sad of dr Calm dr Manures, PelessLediass C boosano.A. The p r i nce SO INS ISMS OP SRI DAILY unwa. the neighbourhood, or on board ships kept for that we N B A to taw A ba n says chat the gw, Sili,—Yon publish a paragraph to the effect that pwrise in the harbour. At the beet of times the ships goolimmat ill disposed to Wait teat W, sashozita na s of Cobs Sir. Bernie, Hems will probably be limited to staad for coming in coma be cleared of their occupants under sesesied Visa powers is Ilio gab •df rho Black Wan t°, illoalleau In his favour—hi the mat of Ws accepting—l thirty or thirtraixboars, and generally muchm Mural ea two Pried* pla* of it—the description longer. of lbo arm sad the tines arrayed for the production of raid metaialy withdraw ; m hies father's us, he would Mies Nightingale and her assistants ten day s t h e i ew s im a m. In Iseivislace it is A ,......, to base serrager claims than I possess. —i M AR, he., their arrival got up a sort of impromptu kitchen. 111 l ama a jest leheematy. ma 'of Mr . IW-hTiki4 Loads, Feb. 28, 1555. J. b. TRILLAWNY. aow like this, where but one opinion le entertained eity we oia rut *mi. le agnare„s. (YZOK • I'