The Express. — London, England, 1855-02-07 00:00:00

ther the nation will osseent to allow its gallant army to bo moaned by nosiest and taismanagement because those who may be to Maw are members of the privileged orders? or , whether, by making solemn inquisition into the rat swings and lasses in that gallant host, the nation, by Its represeetatives, shall acquit itself of complicity in the guilt of ingratitude and cruelty, and prove to those brave men who risk their lives in defence of its honour and safety, that, hereafter, such shameful wrongs shall be rendered impossible. There wee nothing vindictive in Mr. nOZBUCK'S MOtion—no thin in its terms or in the arguments by which it was suppurted that implied a wish to make Ministers amenabte to t►e penalties of an expose facto law. All that was sought for was inquiq into the pest maladministration of the War Department, and an examination of the causes that led to the declination by death—not in battle, bap in the camp—of the conquerors of Alma an Inkermann. From one end of the country to the other an exceeding bitter cry was heard demanding such an inquiry; and 334 members of the House of Commons voted ten days ago that it ought to take place : whereupon the Government resigned. Fur ther proceedings with regard to the Committee have necessarily stood over during the interval that has mince elapsed. Bat that interval will soon be at an end. The drop-scene is about to rise, and those who in the last sot disappeared, routed and unhorsed, will be discovered seated in a row opposite a natatorial table, looking just as if nothing had happened. We shall not have to wait long in uncertainty as to what will next occur. Mr. Rozsucx will, of course, proceed es soon as may be to nominate the Committee. What will Lord PALMERSTON do ? Will he call upset the overwhelming majority by whom the Committee was carried to eat their words, to abdicate their f onetime, and to set at nought the indignant desire of the great body of the nation ? It is, under any eircumstancee. • difficult task to get the House to rescind summarily a vote deliberately come to; but for a minority of mere piecemeal, in being or expectancy, and their immediate connexions, to attempt to browbeat a majority comprising the bulk of all the independent parties in the legislature, merely to save their ministerial amour-propre, and for the majority tamely to suffer such insolence, would be at once an indelible adoption of all the worst sins of the last two years, and an open defiance to the country. And yet we hear it said that one of the conditions upon which the friends of the Duke of NftwcAtrux have agreed to retain their posts under Lord PALMERSTON is, that the Committee of Inquiry into the state of the army before Sebastopol shall not be even named. It is clear, however, that other, and not less agree able, terms have been successfully demanded by theme gentlemen. They had a tolerably large share of the good things of government when they joined the Whigs in December, 1832. Five seats in the Cabinet, the Presidency of the . Board of Trade, the Postmaster-Oeneralship, _ _ . the Viceroyalty and Chief Secretaryship of Ireland, with an appropriate amount of subordinate places and distinctions, were the price of their adhesion then. Some demur was made to the exorbitancy of that demand oa the part of a section that could not number fifty now in the House of Commons. Bet they were a section separate, compact, and uoited i and their terms were complied with. What will satisfy them now—now that they can no longer boast of cohesion or unity ? The same insatiable desires are importunate. Five seats in the Cabinet are still required, though it is necessary, in order to fill them, that secondary luminaries, like Mr. CARDWELL and Lord Calexico, be raised to the dignity is question. Can the new Premier really pima& himself that a score of such bundles of red togs as these will add anything to the weight or inlinsine of the Government with the country ?—Daly Nam THE NEW MINISTRY. HOUSE OF •THIS DAY. In the sitting of the Hones of Commons this day Mr. Hayter moved that new writs be issued for Tiverton for the election of a representative in the room of Viscount Palmerston, who has accepted the adios of the First Lord of the Treasury ; and for South Wilts, in the room of the Right Hon. 8. Har bert, who has accepted the office of one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. Mr. Gladstone proposed to go into committee of supply to vote supplementary ordnance estimates, and said that the house would meet to-morrow, and than, if convenient, adjourn until Friday week, when the navy estimates would be taken. The following is believed to be a correct list of the sew Cabinet : First Lord of the Viscount Pamorrow. Tressury Lord Chancellor ...Lord CZAKWOZTIL President of the) Earl Council Privy Seel Duke Of ARGYLL. Home Secretary ltight Hon. SIDNEY HERBERT. Foreign Secretary Earl of CLAPANDON. colonial secretary (Sir GEozois 01ItY or Sir W. Humorous. Minister at War .. Lord Paxnuss. Chancellor of that Right Hoa. W. E. Gummi Exchequer .... Pint Lord of the L ix as U GRAMM. Admiralty .... Sir Wiusum Mot Public Works.... t Lord Sairtious. In the Cabinet, but 1 M u without office._ j ar q is of lallaw w ial• President of the) Boexdof Control. J Sir CRAIIIB WOOD. Duchy of Lancaster, Lord Canning. Lord John Rowell does not take office. It is sanded confidently, however, that the noble lord has assured Lord Palmerston of his earnest and isergetio support. TIM AIIIITZALISN Man.e.—Tho Royal Mail clipper ship Boomerang, Captain Brows, heissiisi to Moan. Junes as and Co.'s " Black Ball " Use el Awlsalisa whet', left the Marcy yesterday at 11.11 pws. tw Mal bourse, with 497 poressisn and a toB ORM •111111111* of 1,200 toss ef 'mini surehandise, es bassi lihe ohs sor rier out the 7 Mumps= mail% whish ses usenelly heavy, sereirdimi begs of leeteis lied se obsta,4 whia leer muses , sader a sully, Vs deli= days. BM was low to sea by two prude' semeams, whisk wssM, \MOM , only be able to tabs Mr • legit &- tame, as, with a fair wind from N.B. the Channel, she will soon leave them = I Wrilli Ve si tOs bee trip the Bowmen( made the Use in 16 days; mid es she starts is Ras we* iris, gad with a appal WW. *Ns is awry rum la law she will realise the satielpations formed of bee. The Blanche Moore, ()aphis I halt by Mr. Dada WlLay, of Boston, will grossed the reap, to be bilowod os the fgh April Isty sks Kam Polo, lately Assam& le Garry the Apt was han Easiest to Melbourne. THE MOON.-14 baa boa disorwarai by Salowls Mamma denewsbelled as a issesegrisal 60.601theason's entre of Ms is aliMpliss seam so as this but wire of gravity. through @MIN of seuess,la ark of rovoistica mut pass ;► or, in ofilmor NM. this OW Of themes le ar ises miss higher Shaft or. Ws siweasse this die = the mead" at sea at ohs nest sodosaS swim oil asimisaws is tins oariL Is Will MOSS be am* isalsos* la a asisalils quarter.—New York Arm r . r THE WAR. ".•• • •!• F r,.., _~ i$ would reline to moo I - and, is addition this, I ham ao doubt that a sort of ambush fag is growls( op batons the allied powers, armor some seerlike mast be =eh to Austria in retura or bee smistanse, and that this will be the expeleleof keeseeshe from the Turkish territory. It sayilg this, I ees sot expressiag simply my private opiate, bat thee enemy more smapsurnt to Judo than re ael4 and it is peppering by various little dress dames, trifling in timmelves, but eadleiently poetant when taken is enaction ' one with the Mb,. Great and Leahy experesed discontent sesoixthe Poles and Wellaohians, that irgraa l ; spend her money :awaiting a corps of mere nadas in her midst—when nothing but money ma permission is wanted to create a risieg as maim in Poland and Wallachia spirit the common enemy. The allies are evidenty making desperate efforts to avoid a war of nada elides, but depend upon it, with all the force at thir command, they will never make a deep and lsstisg impression oa Russia, if they do not strike at hrc through the populations she has wronged and ott raged for generations, and if they do not oat openly and heartily on their side the unconquer able hatred of millions. They will be forced inb this before the war is over, but then it will come wifa • bad grace. I will refer to this more at lough when I have more time, and, at the same time, sub mit one or two facts bea ring ' upon it. Advice' from the Cams via Constandesple Neil, Marseilles seafirm the Hessian despatch publisher yesterday, sad show that our gone are still silent 1 before Sebastopol. From the fact that Sir Ciente. Brown had lett Malta for the camp, it was inferred' that active measures were in prospect. The Third French Division had taken its plain in the Emilia treadles. A Sardinian general arrived at Consiesti nople on the 28th, to prepare for the seeeptist of the Piedminiteee army, which will be ready to embark by the time that the English transports in which the troops are to be conveyed shall have arrived. The Corriere Dalian° of Vienna of the lit sari We ar assured that Holland has concluded as offensive and defensive alliance with England sell France." We do not find anything to confirm this in the journals of the Netherlands, nor in the previously known relations of the Cabinet of the Hague with the governments of France and England. The Queen of Holland is a grand-daughter of a fume and niece of the reigning Czar. One of has brothers is also married to the Orand Duchess Olge, mond daughter of the Csar. The deobtful tone in which the ezpeeted poem eedimieses at Vienna, and their peseemei bases, bete wields this. few days been mentioned, both in the Motaserand in the despatch of M. Drouyn de Lhays has excited considerable attention; the more so se advice@ from Vienna are not of a character to sustain the hopes formerly built on the Czar's acceptances of the four points. The third guarantee, it will be mmembered, has never yet been defined, but was avowedly left to abide the events of the war. The die deserts made in England darieg the ministerial in. hemp= have led many attentive observers alma M believe that the vagueness of the third guarantee was a consequence of divergent opinions existing along the members of the English Cabinet as to the objects of the war. This view lads expression in foreign journale, which, moreover. notice, as tending to confirm it, that whereas Prime Oortchakoff's acceptance of the four points was notified on the 7th ult., Lord John Russell announesi in the Hones of Commons sixteen days afterward' that Lord Westmoreland had not received full powas to treat with the Russian envoy. The immense Austrian military preparations on the Russian frontier abate still further from the con fidence recently felt in the prospect of negotiations. We may notice here that the telegraphic report that the Turkish minister at Vienna had received his full powers is untrue. He has received provisional in structions, but not the powers in question. _ _ I think it my duty to — inform you that by the accounts received here from Sebastopol, the latest yesterday, affairs are in a horrible state in the Epp lish camp; of all the comforts and supplies you t. 2 England are sending eat, nothing reaches the soldier,. The authorities refuse to unload the transports at Balaklava, and the captains, actin for the maturity of their ships, fling everything out on the beach, where they lie and rot. A cargo o! houses hes actually gone back to Constantinople. 8,000 great coats, lined with far, are lying at Bala klava, and the officials will not send them up to the camp, though the men are dying like 000kroachet. Everything is in the most horrible and disgracefil confusion. The English name is becoming sullid in the eyes of foreigners, and English lives are btitg lost by hundreds through the laziness, iocomp• teecy, and obstinacy of the officials. Stop sending out contributions; they never get further that Balaklava, and are lost there. It is easier to sends thing to Australia than get it feom Balaklava o the camp. • ,ASSINATIONS IN CONSTANTINOPLE The following letter, though we (Daily News) hate reason to believe its details to be perfectly true, niats like a leaf taken from the "Arabian Nights : " Letters from Vienna of the 30th state that the whole of the Austrian army has received orders to be prepared to march. A German journal of great credit says :—"Austria's first corps d'arra e consists of 67,600 men and 144 guns; her second of 121,000 men and 186 guns ; her third of 286,000 men and 252 guns; her fourth of 119,400 men and 104 guns : in a 11694,000 men and 686 gum. Her reserve in two months could be raised to 200,000 men, by compris ing the frontier regiments." The object of General Count Crenneville's mission to Paris has been repre sented as including the discussion of a plan of sending an Austrian army to the Crimea. It is scarcely necessary to point to the geographical rela tion of the Austrian capital and Warsaw as a sum mary refutation of this Wes. CONSTANTINOPCB, ha. 20. Many of your readers will doubtless remember that this capital has for some length of time been the scene of many mysteriously perpetrated robberies of houses, and the equally mysterious and sudden dis appearance of many an English private or A.B. This killing' work reached its climax about May and June last, at the time when so many troops were quartered in and about this city. Some people re garded these acts of bloodshed u nothing more than the result dense midnight brawl, others considered them the works of Moslem fanaticism. But the feet was n satisfactorily accounted for, nor did the many investigations of the police ever succeed in obtaining any clue as to the perpetrators until very lately, when the mystery was cleared up. And it is a blessing that the villains have been at lust secured, as the cases of murders were again becoming very frequent. On the 2nd January a gipsy came to the chief Castes, or superintendent of police, and offered to disclose the haunt of a gang of murderers on payment of a reward of 1,000 piastres. Though immediately secured, he refused to divulge a single fact without the promise of the above sum. The threat of immediate execution was next tried on him, when the gipsy, in order to save himself, declared the whole as a got-up story. Hereupon he was sent in charge of &Cavan to the prison, but neither vans nor handcuffs are in fashion here, and the gipsy managed to make his escape again. Next morning he was found dead in the open street, with fear deep gashes in his breast. It is supposed that the gang got wind of the gipsy's intentions to betray them, and accordingly quietly despatched him, to render him harmless for the future. In the evening of the 3rd, as some Canines wens making their rounds in one of the streets of Galata, they observed two men carrying a large bag between them, apparently with much diSculty. The polio man suspected them by their manner to have com mitted some theft, and accordingly, to escape obser vation, got into the shade of a dead wall to allow the others to approach. But this plan failed, for the moon that moment re-appearing from behind a cloud, threw her light full on the dead wall, whereupon the two men let fall their bag, and took to their heels. The bag was found to contain the body of an English soldier, with a bullet through his head. On the night of the Bth three French soldiers, walking through one of the streets at Pere, suddenly came upon two Oriels carrying the body of an English sailor. Suspecting the commission of a fool deed, the Frenchmen noshing their rifles which kweg at their sides, and gave chase to the Greeks, Ai instantly dropped their burden, and ran off. The chime continued, up one lane and down another, for elms time, when the pursued suddenly halted, and gave a loud shrill whistle. Suddenly the previously empty lane was crowded with dark figures, who rushed es the unfortunate Frenchmen who had thaw= endeavoured to avenge the death of the sailor. They fired and made a gallant stand for sow time, until the overwhelming numbers bore then down, stabbing and clubbing them without merely. Soon after, some camases poising by, the ruffians disappeared again as quickly us they had come to the rune of their fellow murderer, but not without leaving two of the Frenchmen dead. The third lived just long enough to make his statement to the pollee, who instantly searched all the neighbouring beam, courts, and alleys, but without finding anything wee picions whatever. A former member of the Baden Volunteer Cwm who has been obtaining a scanty livelihood here by executing all sorts of commissions, whereby he not Infrequently came in eoetact with some of the scram of all nations, volunteered to find the haunt of this mysterious gang, and as he could be generally de peeled upon, his tender was accepted and a dagger sad a revolver given him for protection. On the morning of the 9th he was found dead outside of Pers. A Canis who bad also volunteered to solve the mystery, likewise fell a victim, and was picked up one morning covered with dagger wounds and perfectly dead. On the 11th, however, the mystery wee solved. It happened as follows :—A Pole of the name of Gleba= and an Italian, Pisani by name, happened to occupy the same room. The Italian led a very free and easy life, was seldom at home, and doss not appear to have been a novice in gambling either. After having been out all night, Pisani entered their common dwelling on the morning of the 10th, with dejected look, which caused his friend the Pole to demand of him what ill lack be had had. Pisani answered, tbs_t be had lost all his cash that night at play, and W eves to leave his gold watch as security for a berrowed sum, adding, " I shall go and redeem my watch directly or the rascally host will change h— and I would not lose that watch for the world. Hang these =melees streets and numberless how!! I should despair of ever finding the cabaret again but for a clever trick of mine: as I left the house I cut a large muse an the hoses door with my knife—that is my only guide, but it is a mark which the old rogue cannot easily efface." He took all his money and every valuable trinket he possessed, and departed determined to lose all or win his money back. Gle ba= had a presentiment that something woad go wrong, and determined to go in search of his friend if he did not make his appearance by next morn ing. Morning came, but no Pisani; and Gle ba= therefore set out to carry his resolution into effect. He had wandered about fruitlessly for about an hour, when he entered a small cabaret to refresh himself with a glass of rum. He me the hat a piastre, and demanded his change in In one of these pares he had only the day Co a te scratched his name with a nail, and reoog nised it as belonging to Pisani, who must have yea away that para. He therefore entered d tto conversation with the gin-shopkeeper. his whether as IteXia bad been here lately, and i 'MB EXPRESS, WRDNESDAir EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1855. labetber he had played at his house. The man seeded the question, and his manner appeared alto gether so odd that alums quietly took his de -1:71.in order to have a look at the street Sure enough, there wu the cross hur riedly scratched on the outside. Turning into the next dread:* met a file of policemen attending oa some arabas, which metalled the bodies of thole who had fallen victims in the past night. There were 14 corpses; of these, 7 were English, 4 French: Pisani lay lifeless there too. No doubt could now exist as to who the perpetrators of all these crimes werejand where their den was ; and on that time day the whole premises were surrounded by mili tary, who effected the capture of 15 men and 8 wo men, all of whom will no doubt meet with the punishment they so richly deserve. THE TURKISH EXPEDITION TO THE (MON TIM SPECIAL DUIIIDI•N 11l DkILT 11111111) VARNA, JMt. le. We have, for the last week or ten days, been suf fering at Varna from an absolute dearth of forage for horses, which, added to the already existing scarcity of provisioes, rendered it anything but an agreeable abode for people with short purses and excitable tem- pe l emesta. was walking one day in the street with an officer, when we met a soldier who had been left is charge of the six horses employed for carrying water which belonged to a regiment already gone to Eupatoria. He told ua that for six days be had been unable to preemie either straw or barley for them, and in de spair bad at last tied them up in a stable,—the first he head empty, and had never after gone back to see them, as he was afraid to find them deed. He semesied and excused himself, as Turks nearly always do ender the weight of inevitable misfortune, by exclaiming "Allah Kerim !" and went on his way. How many more cues of this kind have occurred it is impossible to say, bat I fear very many. All this has been owing to the folly or males of Mahmond Bey, and the other wise who were gathered together here, and w Omer Pasha's unlace in the Crimea, shi if nearly all the barley to be found for Espeassfa. though supplies are now daily being sent there from Constantinople. It is lucky that the cavalry is all down at Bourgas, under Sir Stephen Lakeman, and is well supplied. Had it been here during the pinch the horses would have been greatly debilitated. Uwe are now 19,000 men at Eupatona ; when all have arrived, the Turks under Omer Paella will number 45,000. Those who have already landed are busily engaged in fortifying their posi tion to make it a bus of operations. Large quantities of gabions are being collected here, and sent off daily. There have been rumours afloat for the last few days that Omer Pasha will direct his course first to Perekop, and fortify the isthmus; but he would there have his rear so terribly exposed that I cannot think the story true. In fact, anything I tell you about his future movements is but camp gossip, and is as likely to be false as tree, or, of the two, perhaps rather more so. He will have many difficulties to contend with in making war on foreign soil, which he has never experienced lien, particularly as regards the oommiasarlat. He will have no local pashas and governors to assist him, nor the labour and resources of a whole population at his command. His commissariat-plie, bfat ma engineering corps—are oom of him. self, his secretary, and Machlis ache (Prince Sierras). He has in inferior positions on his staff one or two Poles, who really understand their business and are thorough soldiers, but he does not as yet make much use of them. The presiding genius at present is Mechlin Puha, a wealthy Moldavian, and one of the numerous princes of that favoured region who has never seen a shot fired in anger in his life, and is not, I imagine, gifted with much greater apt ness for military affairs than most of his countrymen. One would be almost induced to hope, if it were not for the effect it would have upon the general state of affairs, that Omer Pasha, on his arrival in the Crimea, would get a sound thrashing from the Romisas to give him a thorough insight into the character and qualifications of the men he has about him, and enable him to separate the gold from the dross. Big talkers with big arm and ferocious sabres, generally be ans very " small " on the field of battle. Phe tries character as well as metals. I have known men out here, who in front of the enemy, when a fam balls were hissing about, would moralise like =upon the sad nature of a soldier's trade, and willingly go two miles in the rear to look elinithing up, or see why somebody wasn't coming; Id who beside a roaring fire, on a cold evening, tail a bottle of wine on the table, would twirl their moustaches fiercely, and cry, "La guerre—c'est ma vie!" I don't mean to say that Omer Pasha does not know his people well ; but the misfortune is, that individuals are forced upon him at Con stantinople, because of their wealth and in fluence at the Porte, who are no more fit for their duties than so many railway names. To enable him to get rid of them he wants 'striking displays of incapacity before the enemy, and I have no doubt t he y will be supplied to him in abundance before long. Some marries has been expressed here that he has sot, ere this. re called th e Hungarians from their retirement at itteaatir, bat I imagine many of that HANOVER PREPARING FOR WAR. I (TIAN AN COIIaBFONDISIT SIP TIE DAILY XXVI.) HANOVER, Fan. 3. Count Rielmannsegge, our plenipotentiary at Frankfort, and brother Of the Hanoverian envoy in London, has been sent for b 7 the telegraph to con fer with ministers, and receive instructions for his future guidance in the sittings of the Diet. It is I satisfactory to state that Hanover, in spite of the Ring's Prussian and Russian family alliances—the King's mother was a Prussian princess, and the pre sent Queen's sister is married to the Russian Grand Duke Constantine—has taken an open and straight with Austria at the Diet. forward course, and votes , _ at ta.. This being the ease, it will not be surprising to learn that measures are being taken to prepare for war, and some steps have been already adopted. Our light in batty, which is a favourite branch of the service, aid is in good odour in England, from the many gallant actions it performed in the Peninsula, is to be increased by two battalions, one of which will for the present be quartered at Gottingen, where the barracks are not used now, and the other at Celle. In consequent)e of this augmentation the following additional officers will be required for active service: 4 staff and field officers, 8 captains of companies, 2 captain, of the second class, 2 adjutants, 8 first-lieute• nants, 16 second-lieutenants, 2 quartermasters, 2 sur geons, and 2 assistant-surgeons, by which an unex pected promotion will take place, much to the satisfao don of our officers here. Cheat attention is being paid to the cavalry, so as to place it in an efficient state. The hones in particular are undergoing a severe scrutiny, and those that are found with any blemish or wea kness are ordered to be sold. In the arsenals the greatest activity prevails, in order to put the artillery in an efficient state; and the muskets of the infantry will be replaced by new ones, as many are found to be in a very unsatisfactory condition. Large orders for muskets have been given to the manufacturers at Herzberg, the government powder mills are working day and night, and in the labora tories considerable quantities of ball-cartridge are being prepared. As a necessary consequence of these measures, a good many officers, whose age and infirmities inca pacitate them from bearing the hardships of :a cam paign, will retire from the service with pensions. In the midst of these warlike preparations, our little capital presents alai an animated appearance from the gaieties and festivities of the Carnival, in which the court takes a conspicuous part. Almost daily the King and Queen give a banquet, a ball, a concert, a sledge-party or a masquerade. These festivities, which put a deal of money in circulation, and thus do great benefit to the middling and lower classes, will, however, shortly terminate; as, contrary ' to the usual custom in Germany, the religious feeling ' of the King induces him to observe the fast of Lent . in a manner conformable to his English education. FRANCE. OP TIM DAILY NEW.) PARIS, TUMMY EVININO. The following telegraphic despatch bee been re ceived to-day : VimmA, 6ru.—Ths telegraph, vid Csernowiti, brings stomata from Odessa to the lot. At that date the thaw had sommeneed. There wee no lee is the rat, when tea Asa trim vessels were at richer; three of that have. alms lilt with their arises. The last segment resolved as Odessa from Sebastopol assonam that it rained daring the day, and froze spier at night. The Grand Dam Nieholas and Nasal were erpeeted. A despatch from Warsaw, dated Feb. 5, stales that the government bee jut dissolved the British Institute for the Conversion of the Jews. The mis sionariee attached to theestablishment have been Dent 01011 TUN out of the country, and their property is offered for sale. The Bourse opened heavily, in consequence of telegraphic advices from London that Lord Palmer ston had not yet succeeded in forming a ministry. , Business was dull during the greater part of the day, but in the afternoon there was a brisk upward movement, the feel ing being that Lord Palmerston would cer tainly put an end to the crisis before many hours were over, and that Consols would rise in conse quence. The Bente closed at 671 r. 900., with a rise of 200. Most of the railways rase from 2fr. to M., but Rouen fell sfr. A statue of Charlemagne; n white marble is to be erected in the open spas* front of the College of Frame. M. Leveol has been entrusted with the execution of this statue. The late severe cold has been suddenly followed in Paris by mild spring weather. This change in the temperature, and the rain which succeeded, soon melted all the snow in or near Paris, and the Seine has risen a metre and a half in two days. Building operations in all parts of Paris have been now resumed, and yesterday, though Sunday, masons were engaged all day in the buildings which require to be finished without delay. The quantity of snow and 'ice which has been carted away from the streets of Paris within the lest few days is estimated at not leas than 100,000 cubic metres. The greatest praise is due to the authorities , for the prompt manner in which the streets have been cleared away this year, as compared with some pre . view occasion& PIEDMONT. A letter from Genoa of the 30th ult. states that the persons lately arrested at Milan, Como, and other towns of Lombardy, have been transferred to Mantua, to be tried by the military commission setting there. These arrests have led to others in Romagna, and many persons, among whom are mentioned Cou nt Patolim of Ceseva, and Messrs. Demi Corsi, and Lupine, advocates, have been taken to Bologna, where there is another Austrian commission sittang. This activity of the police has thrown several families into consternation, and many young men of respectable connections have tied to the mountains with the in tention of reaching the Piedmonts« frontier. The Pope, in the course of his address at the last oonsistory, spoke as follows of Piedmont : What a painful thing to say ! at the moment at which we musk, venerable brethren ' a law is proposed in the Sardinian Sates which has for its object to destroy regular esselesien , tieed institutions, and whisk tramples under foot sad effaces as our as possible ' the rights el the shush. Bet we reserve to ourselves to treat this grave «West as it merits, and to seta the ease may seen to require. The Piedmonts« government has had the late monitory of the Pope printed, and a copy has been given to every member of the diplomatic corps at Turin. THE C AP E. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY. -- The General Screw Company's steamship Natal, Capt. Borer, arrived BILLS OP EXCHANGE AND PROMISSORY NOTES. ant i c ip a ted frogibtibtelseCaaristrorre tp ealcs li tta er. steamship hasp from Yesterday Mr. Keating's bill in the House of Cileamons, to Australia. The Natal had a fall cargo, chiefly of wool and diagaudo the nanadasa es Mlle of analogs and Prandatanl copper ore, the latter from the newly-disoovered mines at waft by the premmds• M frivolous or Willow defences, the Cape. The quantity of copper on board wan about 200 was prima. If the Oka intended is accomplished by the w ee . Feast WA credited will De haunted, and the frequent m,. PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT STEAM SCREW appositives is the Iseshest Debora Gout will be lw s s e- s FR 113A ___ . _ 6O . been fitted vested kr makes Masts It is papal that 111 ATUILIYAO, guns, which has been out by en bmi e y m a ne ni g ...1...,.. ...Am if la, ea de r. Green in the Bast India Docks, and also the Tombs, um As h im w ... m y- Viria-A.-. fa in e a d e tsem sorter ganboat, built for the same government, we op= Ism - II so Alois arm's ..rsossell bailedinto the river yesterday morning, with an ad mi ral ' s ea: te ewer, a eaa siee appear 's flying at the main, and will take their &virtue 116 EMMA as seam ma s adavlss odsiii. sow s ag t a r:. Brazils In the course of to-day or to-paorrow. dist, loet= s JAN way re Wave lie anew ead de- STJICIDE.—LLAUGHARNE, FEB. 6.—The greatest inesa """ °IL se bop isolayed• numb • toodoloo with Slam prevailed here last evening, in oneequence of a lady ''' pat et ms bead oadinft• amd Passkalool 01' great respectability, Mr.. Frank Stackpole, poisoning MGR vik• vat et Iles jedallaties et the ereeft, est be 'aerselt after returning home from church. Mr. and Mrs. SIN ON ail sante% SI 11.94101 W th• 011111 Mia LW Pre- 1 Bteekyols osiy returned bows from Port Nebtl legumes& ' whin Ado. Tko assomme iil Sot le WWI te InteSi or ,It is said that sbe took sate strong polity. whi,cli she wed l IssimiL I to keep W kill wakes. AFFAIRS OF THE UNITED STATES. OP TER DLUY NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY MONNINGt UN. 24 . Few great enterprises have been undertaken in our times of which so little has been ea:d as that of the Submarine Atlantic Telegraph. An‘l yet this enterprise is now fully wider way, and :he l ast doubt is removed about its final completion. oix hundred men have been employed for a year in its @traction from New York City to St. John's, New - foundland, to which point-4,200 miles—it is nearly completed. In a short time we shall receive Euro pean news from St. John's in fin or six days from the Old World, regularly ; and, before two years have gone by, we shall have intelligence flashed regu lar every hour from London to New York. General Pierce's administration is falling to pieces. The poor President has been successful in only a few of his measures, and they have all of them proved fatal to him. Re broke down the Missouri Compro mise, and opened a vast territory away to the west, in the heart of our empire, to the black dominion of negro slavery; but the nation has put its stamp of disapprobation upon the act, and the perfidious trick he played has returned to plague the inventor. When his friends now go to the ballot box, no matter what the election may be, this president, who everywhere carried the popular majorities with him on his election, is left in the lurch. We are waiting 'with some curiosity to see what m wsomw i h n aro g eire.w to iteeT i with theh the heincompetency prosecution will be the result of the opinion which England ile i l e n gth l s tli e ose ts asteraisu b eL m i n t we th ms at blousuilineuto have a v n e d bee the n en he harre re i gg n edard friends of England in the United States feel some what embarrassed when they are called upon to defend the British' administration for the English part of this campaign. The Eutern question is dragging itself along so resultlessly, that it has ceased to influence very mate rially our financial affairs. The stringency in the mosey market is givingy—everything like com mama panic has passed — the backbone of the winter is broken, and already the sidewalks of our business streets are being cluttered by boxes and bales that are being despatched for the early southern and south-western trade. The banks et New York, by their exports of Saturday, showed a larger specie basis than they have ever I had ; and their discounts are far below the showing I of twelve months ago, while their deposits are heavier. Confidence is taking the plea° of apprehension ; the sky has cleared up, mid it is agreed on all hands that ibright prospects are stretching out before us. Money Ito any extent can be bad in Wall-street this morning, on call, at 6 per cent. New York is the most expensive and difficult city in the world to govern or to keep clean. There is more business done in this city within a given s than is done in any other place in the world. P= delphia is a broad, splendid, neat, quiet town ; and well it may be, for there is nothing doing there— there never has been—there never will be. The mweicipal administration of New York must of weessaity labour under the severest embarrassment, because of the arrival of from one to five thousand foreigners every day. It requires upwards of one (thousand people to look after them. Comparatively but a few can speak our language ; and still fewer have any idea what is to become of them when they land. In one respect the govern-nents of the Old World have perpetrated upon this young republic a foul wrong. States, municipalities, police authorities, and cabinet ministers, have made New York City the Botany Bay of Europe. These things have gone on as long u they can. They are to be stopped. The Know-Nothings, like the school master, are abroad, and these matters are subjected to keen er vigilance than they have hitherto been. A few days ego, a ship load of Belgian convicts was arrested and thrown into prison, and heavy penal ties exacted. We now hear t hat the Sardinian government has despatched a war vessel to New York, freighted with a load of crimi nals and convicts ; and yesterday measures were taken by our new mayor, by which the vessel will be prohibited from landing, or the representative of the Sardinian government will be held responsible for the consequences. It Is a Herculean task we are called upon to perform—to receive tens of thousands of the very offsoouring of Europe every year to our bosoms, and build prisons and alms-houses for our security and their main tenance. It is generally believed that the preterit cabinet will be soon broken up, and that most of our repro ssntatives abroad will be recalled. It was not sup =that the Know-Nothings would be able to put any influence upon the national administration until they could elect their own President. But the probability now seems to be that the tide of public opinion, which is flowing so strong, will sweep away every obstacle, and we may perhaps prove that we an democratic after all, by compelling the imbecile and self-willed demagogue to pay some regard to the opinions, the judgment, and the feeling of the nation. The following resolution, in reference to foreign criminals and paupers, was introduced into the senate of New York yesterday. After discussion it was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the Cosamiellenen of Emigration be is. quested to communicate to the Senate u early as peastieep ble any facts in their possession as to the Dauber lei chirecter of foreign criminals and paupers arriving, frees I time to time, at the pert of New York ; also what rules and regulations, if any, are adopted by the board as to this class of immigrants ; and all information as to the countries from which they are sent, the agency of foreign govern ments is their transportation, and to the practical cos *traction given to*, Bute statutes in making provision for their support and disposal. Our coast has been swept by another gale of great severity, and we ars every hour hearing of marine disasters. The railroad riots in Canada threaten to be more serious than was at first apprehended. The following despatch reached New York last night : Buffalo, Jan. 23-10 p.m. The labourers on the Buffalo, Brantford, and Gooderich Railroad still have possession of the track at Cayuga, C.W., about SO niks east of Brantford, where fully armed, they have 'mumbled to the number of 160. when, moraleg the diresseis, with 60 men, took the train at Brantford to eons throng to Port Brie. On arriving at the spot they band tie labourers too strong for diem, and, so far from bobs Was Mesas the track, the directors and their Isar re bd rea va t er s od ra. , we obliged to beg permission t• i TOM to The sheriffs of the counties 1111 Nla gars, Radians& and Brant have been called spas, sag will take 60 British &Didion from Maim village team row, and proceed to the nose of riot, When the road, it is expected, will be opened, and when dose the labourers will be paid off, for which money is now ready, and discharg_ed. After th is is done no further trouble is apprehended. The examination of the man who killed Weimper, with 13 other Frierson, was finished to-day at Fort Brie, he being' held for wilful murder, and the others as accessories. They I will be immediately removed to the jail at Niagara village. Weinpars funeral took place to-day in this city, from the boos of his mother, and was attended by a large concourse ofdessos. Lest week there wu every prospect that the Pacific Railroad Bill would pass through the present Congress : but it is now supposed to be lost. It is lasoght that the French Spoliation Bill will be sweated into a law ; but it is said that it will be vetoed by the President. Our government has been paid some forty or fifty million of francs for French spoliation upon our commerce ; and it is bat just that all proper indemnity should be made to indi viduals who suffered. The present administration, however, are opposed to this ese , aid they do not hesitate to say that they want the money for other purposes. SIR CHARLES NAPIER AND THE EARL OF CARDIGAN AT THE MANSION-HOUSE. dinner both* both* Aldermen of the City of London. The interest of the occasion was m uch enhanced by the eirenMstaitnt stated,thwBirlairlit the Cela Itele t the Na pier, ong t h e : uni for m , hetvge v en i ng i:"th r e s form er weß o s e lr do e o h foffMo e ae n :mhod o ur f i gnag u adPaar i dhi adia spared'na ann e al smAdmiral nbibeasil in the Rumen sabres, in which he led the famous cavalry r i wot°poseithutl"nTunhenn of dir a c nd ha t r h ke s Service er o e f ill t Aa: ll l ! 7e .B l4fa al tthap ti ße c il , "; ' u e : o li n :l p "Li le p d a an s d ir Ca c p . tai tiA n p L m y a neb ro . e. The toast having received an eathusiast mh ic toev re hea spT ub: , la.dzies to raci a l', and as nearly as could be liked valour, sy. gathered , audibility,of ey feels nabdhusib been 0 himself d fe e kr r ies n rea some ad7eji follows he i se in vantages as to position and and gentenien—lf an officer returned from foreign service, the Earl of Cardigan p , la af m te d r i h n s a vi po nc: i the hi 1 eld allow nly ar n edfro on performe d ed difficulty, prodigies much more difficulty must I feel who have returned from my command after having hardly performed any service at all, and also having been censured by the government and dismissed from my command. (Cries of " No, no.") I re peat, dismissed from my command. I have no doubt it will be expected by the present company that some account should be given of the very small services performed in the Baltic b' that magnificent fleet which was sent out from this country. (Hear, hear.) That fleet was magnificent certainly to a degree. It was very badly manned and worse disc iplined; but, never theless, we managed to take it to the Baltic without pilots, without charts ; and, all the o ffi cers being perfectly unac quainted with the Baltic, and with the difficulties of the navigation, we yet succe eded in getting there in perfect safety. Now, the first object which I had in view was to endeavour, if possible , to satisfy the wishes of the people of this country. I was quite aware when I went there, that one-tenth part of what was expected could not be per formed, but nevertheless I was determined to do the best I possibly could. When we first went, my view was to give Russia every chance of putting to sea. I divided my fleet into two squadrons. I left one in the Gulf of Finland, and the other not very tax off the Island of Gothiand. However, the Russians did not think proper to come out. Our next object was to go to Cronstadt, and see what was to be done there. We went there to do, with the assistance of a French squadron, all we possibly could. We found the thing totally impracticable. In the first place, there was not water for the ships ; and, in the next p ace, the batteries were of such strength that it was impossible to attack the place without the almost certainty of destruction to the fleet. I therefore think I acted a prudent part in the course which I pursued. The French admiral entirely concurred in my opinion, and we returned thence to our former anchorage near Semifluid. I bad written before to the English government proposing to attack Bomarsund. I wanted no troops to go there,-1 had troops enough ; but the French admiral thought it more peeper to have some. The French government sent out ten thousand soldiers. I did net want them : they bad much better have been employed at Sebastopol. (Hear, hear ) I asked, indeed, for one or ,two thousand, to make the thing more sure, but I could have done the thing without them—(hear, hear)—and I wrote home to that effect. However, ten thousand were sent eat. It is needless for me to say how quickly the thing was done. (Laughter.) Bomanund was taken in no time—(laughter), and with little lose. That great fortification was destroyed : a forti fication „which extended a considerable distance over the Baltic. I now come to a subject of greater consequence, and I think it my duty to make the facts knows, as much as I possibly can do, here,because I am not in parliament. I have been very much censured by the government. Great clamour has been raised against me, and the government, instead of discountenancing that clamour, have actually supported it. The moment it was known in England and France that the French army intended to return home, seeing that it was perfectly impossible at that Beason of the year to perform any further envies without risking her Majesty's fleet, the government became dissatisfied, and ordered a council of war to be held. 1 dare say nobody ever yet heard of a council of war fighting. (Laughter.) However, we did not want that to drive us on. The whole subject was care fully and thoroughly considered by a marshal of France, by a French admiral, by a general of French Engineers, and by no less than three British admirals. We unani mously decided that it was perfectly impossible to proceed further; and had we done so we should have encountered the aimest certainty of defeat and loss. The British Ad miralty, not satisfied with that decision, listened to the ad vice el an officer of engineers, and I was ordered to hold another council of war, to see whether French admirals and English generals would abandon their own opinion, and adopt that of the Admiralty. The English genera ls felt insulted at that proposal. Had I been desirous to commit the opinion of a brigadier-general of English Engineers, and willing to give up my own opinion, of course when the other members had pronounced their opinion, they would have thought it unnecessary to hold another conned of war. The French admiral very properly refused to join. He said, " I have already given my opinion, end it is not for any general of eagineers,whether English, Frencb,(i erman, or anything else, to make me change my view with regard to an attack purely naval in its character." The govern ment at home were not satisfied with that. The French General of Engineers sent another report home still more bare than the lint; and it is unnecessary for me to say that we all concurred is condemning that opinion also. The French army returned home I believe,and I have no hesita tion in saying, that had we gone up the Gulf of Finland again instead of returning home our fleet would have been totally lost. Not satisfied with this state of affairs, I was determined to have another survey of a fortification which is one of the strongest in Europe. This was in the month of September, a month which, let me observe, in the Baltic corresponds in severity to November amongst the Channel Islands. I sent home a report of a survey which I had taken with great care and deliberation, and with a de termination to do all that man could do to satisfy, if pos sible, the expectations of the people of England. The moment it was said that Sebastopol was taken, it was asked, "Why don not Admiral Napier take Bt. Peter,- burg and Cronstadt?" In fact, it was said, " Why don't you take Moscow ?" (Laughter.) Now I did not expect that the Admiralty would join in that clamour. I say I certainly expected that they would be so mean and despicable as to join in that clamour, in order to bring odium upon a naval officer who hod done the best in his power to bring honour and credit to his country. (Hear, bear.) What did Ido ? I sent home a clear and detailed account to the Admiralty, stating to them my opinion as to what appliances were necessary in order to take Sweaborg. Yon will not expect me to state what these opinions were. (Hear, hear.) Suffice it to say, that two opinions were given, one of which I thought certain to lead to success, the other certain to issue in destruction. What did the Admiralty do? Now, I mention this particularly and plainly, in order that there may be no mistake whatever, because if the government have the least spirit about them they will immediately discharge me and turn me out of the service. (Hear, hear.) The Admiralty perverted my most goaling letters that they could possibly send. They language. Not only did they do that, but they wro wn t ay e zol m iustos e asked see why I did not take Sweaborg, and de this, that, and the other. They received my letter giving an account of how Sweaborg might be taken on the 4th of October — the very day on which the report of the captors of Sebas topol reached this country. On the 9th of October news came that Sebastopol was not taken; bat the Admiralty had not the plain, straightforward dealing, or the honesty, to write and apologise to me; but they pe d what I had written, giving them a plan for the taking of Sweaborg. I was not going to stand that. (A laugh.) lam not the man toputup with an insult. (Cheers.) I remonstrated most strongly; but after all my remonstrances they still persisted in saying that I had led them astray. What could I do ? I• was not going to be driven into all this, particularly am Sir James Graham, during the whole time I was in the Baltic, had written to commander-in-chief." After that came the most issulting want of seahladiseracnestrt:litint°degetialigrgaydu,tbtru?Fttwo:sersoyat.l3bnotee:lerviesylgedop:otroht.revatatehesinfemtebdsystetooac't;;insaeWsewtloo(datitisseeaemoeion: most m me a n te_ men tion this particularly, and I hope that it will go forth to the world, and that it will prevent Sir James Graham from ever sitting in the Administration as First Lord of the ef t e vo ilt al i o t z t ye odhttahhveee advicepublic, the of iandiseie Beet Jams ambe wish huithembehind r ma Graham, ra n i 0., know,Aja mdme James r Admiralt y . ht . I shou ld m . oe harinta tike t ads in l the Baltic. I will prove it before all the world ; and if Sir ▪ n is cleared up am ; .n h as d one single s T i o ng n l o e bit of h e o v n e o l ar to in be him, em h p e lo w r il a l the his tco"h onlyb e a t e t r s a e scratched i th s iteC e l h A hm e d a d va m ys e i ff r tha al aan t:h y O u is n i J o i t ,i thel t hi smaking f ank i I t a r n a m ogp a p o t t n t h e o ri a r t . telling aa ° th ud s t i ru o t ug h. answer for my conduct before they House of Commons when ever they may choose to all upon me to do se. (Cheers.) oppor tunity—perhaps r • p h u a rliely as I do, and I am perfectly ready to The LORD MAYOR then proposed " The British Army," coupling with it the names of the Earl of Cr.rdigan and his aide-de camp Captain Massey. The toast having been drunk with three times three, The Earl of CARDIGAN, who, for Vas reason before &nulled to, was heard throughout rather indistinctly, in re turning thanks,spokenearlyas follows :---My Lord Maynand ladies and gentlemen, I assure you I fv.l considerably em barrassed, inasmuch as there are serieral conflicting con• siderationa weighing vary heavily epic my mind. 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