The Express. — London, England, 1855-01-25 00:00:00

RATIONS IN TEE CRIMEA. TOI IPITOS OP TOP DAUM 11111 in. Catty AIMS eIariSTOPOL, JAZ I. 8i ,—Perhaps no pump in the various news papers which reached is by the last mail struck us *Lk more surprise than the account given by the =Correspondent of the Dews respecting the rations. It, is quits evident that if he doss not live on the " fat of the ma," which he describes Buse to be living on who have been complaining of the quality of the soldiers' ratites, he is living is mesh better quarters than in the cusp before Sebes boot Should he deign to pay us a visit he will not find much of the dyspez e o d f *SON/ is our clamp. Bea is the to—it appears in the . Thus of Nowerbo il Libith : As for myself, I ma saltily assert, from a geed deal of steal kaowlsdgs en Illts subject, that a man am Nee en the =s of • privative/ear day after day, sad can, with the of Heaven, maintain pod condition and Woof health upon them :less Let an ens who likes it get up at all o'clock every smoming—earlier, if need be—take his breakfast of soaked mid hied biscuit, tee, and • slim of beef orreabsr of ration port; let him after some bows of honest 'Penis* eat his dinner, composed of • good soup of ration Viet and rice, or of boded pork and rim ; thee let him wash M down with his gill of ration rum, follow lb* meal (should he he a smokes) by • sound pipe of ratios Wham*, at a brat AMOS limit, it drink • sup of ration tea or coffee ode Wpm to bed at dark, 'ad lam quits eertain he will JAI it dos it eta week that he has lived, if not " unwisely awl tee *ell," at least cloudy and wholesomely as a gee tiseMei &mild. and that he his commumd enough of mini. ides Ms taileeelop his strength sod fit him for say mt. ewe 116611 his bodily frame may be capable. Abe Nen had received such rations as "the Spooled Correspondent" appears to have had "actual know/kW of, I have no doubt they would have been —.rosy of them, at any rate—as stout and as well as I hops be eoctiones to be. If they had not only Joao hem, them, but had the same means of cooking and re. paring them, I firmly believe that many of the emaciated wretches who are now stalking about the hospital tents, or who have been removed to Scutari, would have been stout and well ; and many, many others now rotting in the ravines of this plateau would have been, humanly peaking, alive, and motive soldiers. lam in one of tbedivisionsengaged in the siege operations—not at headquarters, nor at Balaklava, where the supplies may be very different. Oar Special Correspondent writes on Nov. 22, and describes the day's ration living. There is soaked and fried biscuit—no doubt soaked and fried in butter—for breakfast, with tea, and a slice of beef or rusher of ration pork : really quite tempting. But where can the soldier who has just come in from picket or the trenches, and who has to go and fetch his water and hie firewood, get the means of break ing his fast so luxuriously ? No tea was served out ha this division in the whole month of November, nor was there any issued in December; no grocery but coffee, and that in a green state. As to the rasher of pork or slice of beef, the soldier ate his allowance (much curtailed of late, some days to one third and one fourth of a pound of salt pork) yesterday at dinner, and must wait till the time for the next issue before he gets any more. Then after some "honest exer cise—a march into Balaklava and back, on fatigue duty perhaps—comes dinner. " Our Correspondent" has managed to get a "good loop of ration beef and rise, or of boiled pork and rice ;" but if he had bad • canteen to cook his soup in, no vegetables or condi ment to put into it, no fire bat what could be made on the ground with some wet brushwood, no ries (it was stopped by general order on the lath of November), or as substitute for it—though he had been Boyer himself, it would have pessled him to have made such soup as the adjective "good" would have been justly applicable to. Now follows a sound pipe of "ration tobacco." There must have been a little private in terest here with the Commissary treneral ; at any rate, no such thing as ration tobacco has been issued in the Light Division, though there are some smokers in it, and Punch would have anggested it might be more useful to that division than to any other. The ration tea has already been disposed of, and the only comment on the "coffee ere he goes to bed at night" I would make is, that I hope oar spe cial correspondent's bed was, for his own sake, not quite so damp or bare as our soldiers'—as unlike it in all respects, indeed, as his meals appear to have been. Otherwise I do not think he would have found even one week's ration life as animating and strength-developing as, in his glowing description, the influence it exerted upon himself appears to have been. The ration rum, biscuit, and salt pork, have been good in quality, but directly there was a difficulty from bad weather end bad roads the supply failed. We had been living "from hand to mouth." Not even a division store of two days' rations was provided against an emergency. The bit animals, which had been haltstatved, neglected—not even their shoeing attended to—sank soon after the country arsine failed, and the men had to go and fetch their rations themselves. Many men died under this extra exertion. It has been discontinued; but the men still have to go in for nearly all the stores of clothing which are brought to the front. Some bit animals hays arrived from Varna and else where, but the rations are still very irregular and diminished in quantity. The rations of rum and meat have been much curtailed. There has been scarcely any fresh meat—about 4lbs. per man daring the whole month of December. Coffee is still issued in a green state. By *nail order of the 27th of De cember, the ration of rice was ordered to be com menced spin, and it has been issued since. Rations of light and fuel were ordered to be issued about three weeks ago—l forget the date. No light has ever been issued up to this day, and the men have only got fuel once. Considering the fatigues and exposure the men are of necessity subjected to, I have no hesitation in saying that neither the quantity nor the quality of the men's rations is sufficient to preserve much less strength. There is too small a qaantity of fresh meat, there are no vegetables, and too small an amount of food altogether. Some time sines it was announced by general orders that there was a Teasel laden with potatoes at Malaya, from which roe. meats could draw supplies. Oa sending down, the potatoes were found to be covered over by other stores, and, moreover, the ship was under immediate orders to leave, se that the vegetables could not be obtained. More attention has been paid to the means of cooking of late, and a fresh supply of camp kettles has been issued to regiments. But much, even in this matter, still remains to be done. The subject of rations is not one for poetical de scription ; it is very little more than a matter of pounds and ounces. The accuracy of no statement can be so easily examined into, as one respecting the kinds and quantity of food issued to the men. A simple return from the quartermasters of regiments of the daily issue will at once show what the men have re ceived. It must not be sent in by a commissary general, nor proceed from any favoured individuaL Let the quartermaster of each regiment send in a return of what he has been able to vsue to the men of his regiment, and the regiments are not so nume rous that these returns will be very voluminous. It must be, if the truth is desired to be arrived at, ob. tamed from each division, and each regiment of the division : for during the last six weeks or upwards our commissariat has assumed very much the appearance and condition of a general " scramble," and those who have been the strongest, or whose good leek and some happy contingencies have given them the most mead of transport so that they could bring supplies oat for themselves from Balaklava, have, as in other scrambles, fared the best, while the weaker party has "gene to the wall." A REGIMENTAL OFFICER. MISHAP TO THE THLHOZAPHIC CABLE POE THE C 1111111..-111. steamer Sink S.c left Sunderland es the 18th, and ea the &Swim dn, whew off Lowestoft, en countered imp winds Ibis ea aN.E., with a heavy ass, which MINA the ship to iskra heavily, 63 ranch so that Captaia Geedeaar, the sesomedir• was eetspelied to savi" pats bar wader half slum Mayer Vela& so the 20th tin enw was darned by as 111 the slykli•nels, add it woo /mg that a job* of the eatery van lad given way. The ossinonssa was 1111.1 with *any sad the swig hay- hit sot aldiseosursi tbe slansidsns to *IL The violent p*bisc sTheadm worlds( of the wend excited sonsidar- , able suably. asa lords. hos . the tar- Sasso nose dinvow, Itillosar te llisALut upon bar. and Oopt, as limped souses Rehab.' visas oho arrived an Inaday. Oa reashlng that place ft woe as p taised that., had onialinad puler ilassayo - *Woe did than was at lust anplassik do in Widen to ha wee abrellos lb ins frund Mother basin had gat Mb& Ms hem toinesilig st Olik sad awry nom swift Sim to est bar to ass with all posdhis ospollitsen Oho W adds* of nay mosso. who woes to bay dews the ant owlets the ammo, wain. DEATHS AT THE HOSPITALS IN TURKEY. The rainiest; is lb* nominal return of deaths at the hospitals from the 7th bathe 10th N lea. inclusive : Cooperal Prederiek Collins, .60sh Regt., dysentery, Jen. 7 Privates Peter Wilson, 44th ltegt. diarrhea', Jan. 7 ; Eli Stewart, Ord Ear., tharrhan, Jan. 8; Michael Grady, 21st Refit., dysentery, Jas. 8 ; Jahn Crusher, 2Jth Reit, Mel., ism. 7 ; Thaw Gram, 41st Rest., diurhon, Jan. 8; William Seep, Soots Fusilier Elands, diarrhea, Jim. ; Jamas Wanes, Soots Plsiilllll Guards, dysentery, Jan. 7; John Greurined, Ist Feet, dysentery, Jan 7 ; Thomas Murray, 4th Regt., Mamba a, Jae. 7; Thome* Palmer, 7s, Bear., dyseatery, Jan. 7 ; David Cemoiltage, 19. h Rest, diaretea, Jan. 7 ; Edward Chappell, 20th Rest., dreamy, Jan. 7; Thomas Williams, 28th Regt, dysentery, Jan. 7; John Halleatik, 46th Regt., denim*, Jan. 7; William Bishop, 46th Rep., fele* Jae. 7; Geo. Haim, 116th litegt., minas, Joe. 7; John Davie 62nd Regt., dysentery, Jan. 7; Peter Flood.63rdßigt, diarrhea, Jan. 7 ; Clerks Gill, 68th Regt euntoeun, Jae. 7 ; Weems Crew, 68th Rest, dysentery, Jan. 7 ; Henry Wil liams, 77th Reit. dysentery, J. 7; James Mcßee°, 79th diarrboa, Jae. 7; Hugh Kenos, 79th Rein., dy sentery, Jae. 7; Patrick Lynch, 83th Regt., dysentery, Jae. 7 - ; William Tyr, Ist Battalion Rile Beireids, diar rhea, Jan. 7; Henry Term., lit Satiation R.llO Brigade, diarrhea, Jan. 7; Thomas Edwards, tad Benetton Rifle Brigade, diarrhes, Jae. 7; Robert Newell, Aoo.ll'B'3o Corps, diarrhea, Jae. 7; George Frazee Royal Artillitir febris, Jan. 8; Jsoob Salter, 20th Bor., diarrhea, Jan. 7 ; Patrick Dean, 38th Regt., diarrhea, Ju. 7; John Foust, 46th Regt., machos, Jaa. 7 ; Mewed Williams, 67t.i Refit, wounds, Jaa. 8 ; James Spencer, 63r8 Rev., diar rheas. Jae. 7; Patrick Beanie*, ftieh Rest., diarrhea, Jen. 8; Thomas M•Loughlio, 88th Ran., diarrhoea, Jen. 8; Charles Gates 1•t Foot, dienbene, Jur. 7; Thema* Snitch, le Rein., dysentery, Jan. 7; Patrick Galvin. 21st Refer., dysentery, Jan. 7; Jos. Wien, 44th Regt., gelatin, Jan. 7; lbhn Drakeford, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, diarrhoea, Jan. 7 ; Henry Penwell, 17th Lancers, slur, lea. 8; Joseph Beak, Ruyal Artillery, feels, Jae. 8; F. Belcher, Grena dier Guards, diarrhea, Jen 8; D. Robinson, Coldstream Guards, diarrhene:J en. 8; Wm. Hayes, Coldstream Guards, diarrhea, Jan. 8; G. Whlurtlsa, Bees Fusilier Cards, dysentery, Jan. 8 ; Daniel Memo°, Scots Fusilier Guards, dysentery, Jan. 8; George Mien°, 4th Rest., diarrheas, Jen. 8; Jahn Barton. 23rd Rest., diarrhoea, Jan 8; Jr Divine, 38th Regt., diarrhoea, Jen. 8; Taamas Chapman' 88th Re t., diarrhea, J. 8; John Kelly, 41st Rent., values,Jan. 8 ; John Waters, 46th Refit., dysentery, Jan. 8; George Hastier, 46th Regt., diarrhoea, Jan. 8; Wm. Steels, 49th Regt., dysentery, Jan. 8 ; Thom.. Brow., 6011 Rest., dysentery, Jan. 8; Jesse Lay, 60th Rep., dreatery, Jan. 8• Patriek 1111.1ingh, 62nd Regt, dysentery, Jae. 8 ; R. Fredgill, 77th Regt.,diarrbene, Jan. 8; Edward Chambers, 95th Rest., dyseatery,Jan.B ; Thomas Bond, 20th Refit, genie Jan. 8 ; Richard Constable, 38th Roo., dysentery, Jas. 9 ; Gregory M'Crosy, 49th Rent.. tractors, Jan. 8; Richard Cotbell, 2nd Battalion Reis Brigade, diarrheas, JUL 8; George Jones, 7th Rest, diarrhea, Jan. 9 ; Huraphry Dodd, 2ud Battalion Rite Brigade, diarrhoea, Jan. 9 ; King, Coldstream Gaerds, Murree Jan. 8 ; Robert Ragg, 77th Regt., diar rhea'. Jan. 8 ; M. Bruit, 21st Rep., dysentery, Jaw. 9 ; J. bl'llugh, 67th Regt, dysentery, Jan. 0 ; B. Sheridan, 88th Rest., dysentery, Jan. 19 ; J. Little, 38th Best., dy sentery, i.e. 10; Hugh Flys., 47th Regt., diarrhoea, Jan. 9 ; Henry Pearce, 20th Refit., diarrhea, Jan, 9 ; John Dals, 19th Rent., febris typhis, Jan. 9; aniel, 20th Regt, dysentery, Jan. 10; Denia l:sin Garrett, Coldstream Guards, dysentery, Jen. 10; Peter Hulsey, 63rd Regt., eine, Jen. 10; William Ogelvie, 93rd Rest., diarrhoea, JIM 10; Charles Dibbons, lst Battalion Rifle Brigade, Tullius, Jan. 10; James *Minnie, 2-3rd Keg., febris, Jan. 9; Patrick Dougherty, 38th Riot., diurnal, Jen. 10; George Metcalf, 1 834 Regt J4ll. 10; WillislloCotAran, let Battalion ' ICits Brigade, diarrhea, Jan. 9 ; Benjemia Band, 20th Rest., values, Jae 10; Michael B . 19th Relit, diarrhea JIM. 10; Samuel liszeilton, god Dragoon 'Guards, dysentery, Jan. 9; John Meredith, Royal Artil lery, dysentery, Jan. 9: Benj Bradford, Royal Artillery, diarrhoea, Jan. 9; Rd. Pain, Grenadier Guards, alisentery. Jae. 9: JollaWdrm, Coldstream Guards, dysentery, I Jan. 9; Benj. Dent, Coldstream Gaud., dysentery, Jao. 9; George Bailey. Coldstream Guards, diarthoes, Jam. 9; Whim. Britton, Soots Fasiiire Guards, diarrhoea. Jen. 9; Themes Heseltoo, Boots Fusilier Guards, dysentery, Jae. 9; Matthew Bond, Ist Foot, dysentery, Jan. 9; Charles Bret, 4th Regt., dysentery, Jae. 9; Robin Muller, 4th Rent, dysentery, Jan. 9; George Gould, 20th Regt , fever, Jan. 9; Charles Cousin. 20th liege., die:than, Jao. 9; Michael Britten, 28th Regt, diarrhea, Jul. 9; James Ito Mabee, 34rd Regt., dysentery, Jan. 9; Jobe Barrett, 33rd Rest., diarrhea, Jan. 9; John Woodwaid, 41st Rao., dysentery, Jan. 9 ; Pew Sharkey, 44th Regt., diarrhea. Jan. 9; William Datie, 46th Rags., diarrhoea, Jan. 9; James Mane, 47th Rest., dysentery, Jan. 9; James Mc Mellen, 46th Rep., dysentery, Jan. 9; William Puree, 65th Rep., rases, Jae. 9; Henry' Keene, 63rd Rest., diarrhea, Jan. 9; R. Howard, 63rd Rest, febris, Jan. 9; Patrick Filpot, 68th Refit., diarrhea, Jan. 9; George Smalls, 68th Refit, diarrhoea, Jan. 9; William Street, 77th Regt., dysentery, Jan. 9 ; Michael Memel, 89th Regt., diarrheas, Jae. 9; Charles Godtin, 95th Regt , diarrhea, Jan. 9; George West, Ambulance Corps, dysentery, Jan. 9. THI EXPRESS,' •TIittRSDAY JANUARY 25, 1855. . : , :/~ cells‘Tleli nowinercarreartr OP TIM DAUM WIRRIII.) , ' PARIS. WIDNIUDAT M. News de Lime and . Baron Hubner Mere lately had several conferences to settle the terms of the alliance offensive and defensive about to be con cluded between France, England, and Austria. I have reason to believe that a satisfactory understand lug has been come to, Rad that the treaty, which in all probability is already signed, will speedily appear in the Atoseigeser. There are a variety of rumours afloat concerning Prince Napoleon, his report to the Emperor of the way in which the war is being conducted, and the probable cooseuenees of his representations. Some people profess to know for certain that General Can robert will be superseded by. General Pelissier, who was to have left Algiers on the 18th to take the command of a division in the Crimea. Ido not believe this report. General Cansobert is of all the soldiers who took a leading part in the coup d'etat perhaps the most popular in the army, his daihtary geniur and exalted personal cha racter being admitted by oflioers whose political sympathies are altogether adverse to the present regime. It was known long ago that the Emperor looked to him as the man likely to illustrate the French arms under his reign. The high command he now wields is a confirmation of all that has been said about the Emperor's confidence in him, and I do not believe that confidence is at this moment in any degree forfeited. But this much is true :—There is at' the Palau Royal a species of tolerated opposition to the Tuileries. Prince Napoleon, as 7ou have seen by the article in the Press*, has put himself upon the country as a censor of the actual commander of the army before Sebastopol. That he may have made a report against General Canrobert is very likely. It is possible that for reasons of state an apparent im portance may be allowed to be attached to this re port in certain court circles. But there is small like lihood that it will be acted upon. I believe M. Magne will shortly be appointed Minister of Finance in the place of M. Bineau, whore health is in a desperate state. M. Rouher is spoken of as likely to be the new Minister of Public Works. M. Msgne, I am told, wishes to keep the latter portfolio until•the affair of the Grand Central Rail- I way, in which he takes a great interest, is settled. The general meeting, which it was thought would have been postponed, was held yesterday. The management asked for full powers to continue their negotiations with government for the Never and several other branch lines. These powers were I granted unanimously. No fresh Gall was spoken of, but it was agreed that special boa& should be created for the ext ention of the Neves* line. People pretend that the article in today's Mani kur on the success of the loan, was written by the Emperor. The Bourse opened well, and, after a decline of several centimes in the middle of the day, the Itente roes again, and closed at 68fr. 10e., with a rise of 40e. Railways were remarkably firm. Some lines rose 10fr. and 15fr. The Nouvelliste of Marseilles says that the high winds have blown down some thirty poets on the line of the electric telegraph in the Gran plain. This explains the recent interruption in the service. The Princess Joachim Murat was safely delivered of a daughter yesterday evening. THE FRENCH LOAN. The Mon iteur of yesterday publishes the following article: The reception given to the former proposal of a national loan was a guarantee of the success of the new appeal which the Emperor has just made to the country, but the result of the latter baisarpared all ezoectation. " Never," se the Minister of Finance said In his report, " never has a people given to its sovereign such sigeal evidence of confidence and ' , devotion." The Emperor asked of France 500 millions, the deputies vote them by acclamation , France answers that she is ready to gin four times the sum, and foreign na tions, joining in this national manifestation, impress on it the character of a European manifestation. In twelve days two milliards and two hundred millions (two thousand two hundred millions of franca) have been subscribed. To judge by the throngs which hastened to the offices down to the last moment, a week more would have considerably added to this enormous amount. The crowd was so great at the Treasury, at the smirks, at the offices of the taz collectors, in every place open to the sub• ecription, that a great number of persons could not take part in it. Never hes such zealous regaining been displayed, and this, too, in Ihe midst of war, in the depth of winter, when we are just emerging from the food crisis, and with out the adventitious aid of any event to stimulate the seal of the subscribers. It is not possible to shat caa's ape to the meaning of this peat political event. The object of the loan was known; to his speech at the opening of the Chambers the Emperor had proclaimed it aloud. The question was, not to provide for the internal expenses of Franco; alum the re•ostablisbment of order the of the country amply sailors for every want ; the question was solely the means of corryine on the war with fresh vigour. It is nevertheless in a financial operation, thus explicitly defined, that not Francs and England alone, but Holland also, Belgium Switzerlaad, and aeon Germany, have jollied without% alierity. The brillisat success of this operation is grater than a victory, it is the mean of gaining victories. If money forms the sinews of war, Fresco has just proved that she is no more in want of money tbaa she is of soldiery, that the Emperor can equally depend oa the coffin as he sea on the anti tithe citiiens: - It weld be difficult to easy:aerate the fall significance of mesh an event. When a nation has been able to declare, O the mouth of its chief, that she hu in her armies Ursad eta, meetly 600,000 soldiers, 120,000 horses, seaman on board bier fleets, and when she often brmailately four times more than what was asked of hat hr meeting she expenses of the contest, there is is this aggprgelle of fortes placed at the aerates of Euro pean right mane than a legitimate subject of satisfaction for her and afelialdinoe for her allies—there is security for the Ware whist all eventualities. Evan is sine worst days the military resources of France thinehifeettimaied. Everyone knows that the soldiers appear Is adage already formed from the bosom of this heroic hark bents would have saspected the silent of her Gnaw eial t Oa this bead, Fumes herself knew it not ; she laMsmh s of it only when appealed to by that rymgeilballall a l=t bad ones before so happily questioned bar. The nadmeilign has renewed the prodigies of the animal vote, lel Wires reserved for him, who had saved Fria* by esabliaglier to' display her sentiments, to reveal to bee all the wealth she polishes. Foe it le truly Frame that bas quadrupled this tut loan. Oho is prowl of and grateful for the testimony the has re mina Ms the seighlaseriag nations, bat is the total MI MS Wilke sabomptious the produc t of the funds from aim& this net surpass the proportions of a sympashetie maneselallea. Aher the awaits& of the result, that which 4:mot be toe Seed* pasted out is it as the sigs of the sioantry's wealth and ionise prospinfty, is the *umber of she smell subeeriben and the rftdy_eneney peered iota the treasury daring the operation. Who weal/ have ventured to pre. diet that Francis weld pins wady MB Waiver at the im mediate disposal of her goomeneent, ma That edihout pm •dies delay to the getheil atheineed of sommeethe sad industry as t The gnat alphabets have the awn leeward with a medi ans we nun gratefelly eggeniate, and lees& to she govereaset the testimony of their doubloon sad their atheilem. Bet their -sheen_- was see mummy y ; and, ae the Witham of Memo homesick they 41•05 le be glad that It was mot. If the henediste advamempe of the loam below ezeleelvely is the non etheeribere, the gnat sepitalists lad, is the eakesell-of sneer of this Benicia operaticsn sad the svelte it pashas, a vast . Nethimg mob balm ee of al l ; sad lead fresh Impulse lov the Meese of the thililh thee this me- Mess of the madam, whisk man to the gethremeat 1,700 Winne son thee was mind, sod thh byslg of the so veneesth whisk heseame he nous this, as es mot to divert them he the emeeememf Whirs. The sea teal of the all subssrlpdoes ,snows to 860 Willem. Mullikin neve them . the sun dessemded. It is Mee wegadinkthet *gem dinky their *Assam Out of IV ni 16 .0 000 bill 4 Pdidas lees th re em 10,000 a above how of rate; TIM& sin wpm 600 heath em thisbul 'masher the those which de met nano the hamlet mil whisk ere the holes of the saving lives mode to the the la boollses dense, repenewt more thee 300 =n of . - 11pielnetiom kis esetaisly taken pat Is this eeivenal einsethethe of neblesse and patriotism s bet smug ohleenbe regarded the hem es a good thhip hew essay of *the One gisespeed nerely by the theirs et gib t • And Ilia siiiii•fes ens but Sc. is their olgenises to sulisseihe a an thelinemy is berm of the malt sad pith" it Mosso. BO tbsisli of die plains, irssesslisses, the mall Moire pospshiess t slick is ire , ethic iminmese usgseity of Ills sulisisibsis, ma ...piste SO SIMISOMIIIa that sigma, SSW is the lees oily dany dies led. oar oza li le USIA sad et the mos Ilses Wllwaelf hr wit* theatheneavieg• The Irsswni.s-Nall pit Oita, de whin speculation thee ton ase, Mhos& men lbw the Med el the dna sehuriptions. alubei the 40 Willem of ionise takes W lie 'Snell meglenlith li millions bang so the Iress-5a1b4.1141 les °amis.' , The Nampo to ibestais lasi a 'Wel the midis lidos& BM as Wises IV/MU his of Row was Olessialifso bawds s wen smatter se: low Isidssrosse, as la Mks masses before the ant trW of a Withal sehmeigthihs thu peel segitalists were alone belted to obese Mt the balm if Inas. The Emperor wished, due the debts of the DEATHS ON BOARD BHIPB COMING FROM THE ON HOARD TM MANANINONA. Privates Jobe Shame, 23rd Rao., thirteen, Dee. 30; Richard Jose., 23rd Rost., diarrhea, Dee. 30; J. Jouro, 7th Rest., diarrhea, Jail. 1; M. Fitzgerald, 20th Riga, rheumatioia, Jan. 3; J. Pearoes, 19th Regt., diarrhea, Jae. 4; D. Williams, 23rd Regt., diarrhea, Jas. 4; J. lioneeroft, 23rd Regt., diarrhoea, Jaa.6. ON NOAND 701 50151! 07 755 SOUTH. Corporal Jamas Lockhn, 63rd Batt., Jan. 6; Privates Patrick Connors, 63rd Rest., Ju. 6; Winters Lyno, 67th Jan. 6; Thomas Callan, 33rd Reit., Jan. 6 ; George Bright, 911th Rest , Jan. 3; lume Isles, 46th Regt.. Jan. 3; Edmund Harris, 46th Rost , Jas. 3 ; Robert Dalleld, 67th Rest., Jan 3; Timms, 95th Rest., Jan. 3; Jobs Brassard, 6th Dwane" Mei, Dos. 21; George Floe*, 63rd Rept., apoplexy - Das. 21; R. Spalding, 43rd Rev., apostasy. Dee. 23; A. Taylor, 4th Light Dragoons, diarrhea, Dm. 24 ; A. UMW's., 2nd Dn p ooas , fabria, Des. 26 ; 42mi Rer., imams, Dee. 26; W. Look, Ist D diarrhea, Dec. 27; T. Cgs'', let Battalion Rile rigado, Talmo. Dee. 28. ON DOAN! TEN OTTAWA. Privates Thomas Toohey, 47th Reit., catarrh, Dec. 19 Jolla Buenas, 4th Dragoon Guards, Dee. 20 Francis Lett 4th Dragoon Guards, diarrhoea, Deo. 20 Wm. Davila', Royal Art Wary, dysentery, Dec 21. On loam) raj - nissnsiii. Corporal Samuel Wilms, 7th Regt , catarrh, Jan. 4. Privates Charles Johuton, Geuther Gouda, rlintosatiose, Jan. 4. ; Rattail, Royal Artillary, diarrhea, Jan. 4 ; Jolla Cornish, Coldotreass Guards, rhessaUss, Jan. 4; Jacob Glover, 97th Rep., diarrbma, Jan. 3 ; John Guthrie, Soots Feather Quads, rheumatism, Jos 3; Abraham Murphy, 77th Rept, dimities, Jan. 3; Charles Alford, 46th BAit. diarthata, Jan. 3. ON aimso nut asuorvu. Privates Job Chin, 41st Rost, diarrhea, Jan. 7 ; William Barfoot, Grenadier Gaud., Tae. 7 ; Daniel Gibbons, 30th Rap., dlarrboas, Jan. 7; Thema Baggotiae, 68th Bee., diarrheas, Jan. 8. ON BOARD Tl 3 ROZOPA. Corporal Joseph Lloyd, Boots Familiar Ooards, dysontory, Jaa. 6. Privates Hoary Hyatt, 23rd Roo, fshrts typhis, Jan. 6; Goons Hughes, 34th Root, &when. Jan. 6; Richard Brittle, 47th Befit., anomie ritssoistient, Jan. 6. RUSSIAN PRIZES. Yesterday notice wag gives at the Royal Ex change that, if mesa is not shows to the ossuary, the Coen of Admiralty will pressed to adjudicate and pro nounce seademastios of the following ships, with the mercheadies laden therein at the time of their captors, as belonging to the enemies of Great Britain, and as lawful prizes to the captors : The Mater Coaatantine, Fedor Pubnnof, muter, al tered by her Majesty's ship Retrinties, Captain the Hon. James Robert Drummond; the Niger, Leopold Geese Heath, commander; and the Frown ship of war, Descartes, which ship has been taken to Varna. A brig, name unknown, 'spared by her Sfajesty's ship Firebrand, Hyde Parker, Zoo., Commander, and taken to Contantineple The Minor Nieolal, Kiel. Tans's% master, entered by her ligesty's ship, Retribution, Ca Lis the Hoc. James Robert. Drummond; the Ripe Leopold George Heath, Req., ens:deader, and the Fr ench ship of war, Descartes, Taken to Varna. The Baster Ceesstantiu, Grip Laurence, easter, cap tured by her Mejosty's ships Niger, Leopold George Heath, • ; the Retribution, the Hos. James Robert Drammen, anirreash ship of war, Descartes. Taken to Tarns. The Baatoe Pietro • Paolo, leas &doles, master, eamtsnd V e l a r art lasjesty ak 's ships Retribution, Niger, and Freon ship es. Ten to Varna. The Odeeta mimed by the Custom-holm onsets, an brought to Hill. The At i G. Jonas, muter, by the Custom- how oaken i t t. The lade ,J. U. lishleseasap, master, by the Costaa house Ann of Hall. limns ox AocoviT OF MX Wia.—Yester day a rotors to the BOON of Cemnieisa (procured by Mr. Disraeli) was Awed. @hewing the anceuat paid by the Admiralty, up W the let elDeeember lest, for sand sem% eh. The total sum set MVOs 8 ,00. lip. 104., ;ai 1,071,1011. sad tit gavel Mena, lael • and *Ms sad pueebeeed aid =fry ; 1,448,M. 115..441. L 5.... NOM of _leir rietoallos. of of of Oka /Weft of provide= asiliolar V lira do 100*/ 6,7931. Ss. 10d. tpr pdasoess ef wen apd,40161/6111. IA ild.. feu packet son*. „ , Tim Emma • • or 4ilourvicis,-NA jsrlisositery blut-boek basjeseteno imillandi Craw Wl it tbea the mild eistieloirlM.4 5te4,111“., and ki ll = UM lrbs ligib 0 psalm vim one usiNret* - MEWS COINCIDENCL—Tharna flits lit ia Ina village of Legtoe, Brea. fees perms of the mom et Jolla Swain. Rat at all Mated, sad all with imam legs &Mose' net ate has bees I. the wig as navy. ruts ere a shame for ell, that the "'lota?. conferred **restos Should be ereereible to r;.". he latices% ilitheileigtiesi will have vrodseed is the fans. • 'militias to that which tr.e principles of .89 di with re' 111114 it enerty. Tbh rem eoaseqseneee will realm v , rour it : the diffarioit of weal& sad the enhirgensent of the bean on which axial order seta—that is to a.y, trash bond. for attsehing the people at large to the tranquillity and pre*. parity of the eosntry. GERMANY. A letter of the 20th, from Munich, given in the Monitsur, states that the Minister of State had just presented to the Chambers a bill for the eventual mobilisation of the Bavarian contingent. Herr von Pfordteo asks the parliament to vote a credit of 13 million florins for this purpose. AUSTRIA. The Vienna papers announce as a significant fact the advertisement in the local journals of " two dwellings containing respectively 38 at.d 23 tooms " in No. 42, on the square of the Minorite., being to lot on St. George's-day next (23rd April). This is the residenes of the Russian ambassador, Prince Gott obakoff, who up to the present time, has not taken another house, and who may therefore be supposed . to be in daily expectation of receiving ord e r s f rom ' the Czar to quit Vienna. TUSCANY. At the reception of Colonel Dumas, of the French cavalry, on the 16th, by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, his royal highness was pleased to say that he was happy to seize the occasion of the passage of the French troops through his states to testify the senti ments of warm friendship and admiration which he felt for the Emperor of the French and his army ; and that he congratulated himself on learning that his personal intentions bad been faithfully acted up to by his subjects. THE ALLEGED INFRINGEMENT OF NEU TRALITY BY A HANOVERIAN SHIP, SEIZED BY A FRENCH CRUISER. OHM THI COIIII3PONDINT 0/ Tll DAILY 3131111 HAMBURG, JAN. 21. Borne weeks ago the newspapers reported the startling fact of a vessel, called the Vrouw Honwina, under the Hanoverian flag, bound from Lisbon to Hamburg, having been captured by a French cruiser and carried to Oran for having contraband of war on board, The Lisbon correspondent of the Times. in his letter of December 31, gives an account of the circumstances, which, if correct, would show that the parties concerned had been guilty of a breach of the laws of nations, and that the property in question was justifiably sewed. From his account it would appear that the goods in question, designated as con traband of war, consisted of a parcel (973 bags) of salt petre, shipped on the 22nd of September last from London to Lisbon, and declared for Portuguese con sumption, but re-shipped on arrival for Hamburg, although the consignee procured a certificate from the British Consulate at Lisbon that the saltpetre was really landed for local consumption, thus releas ing the shipper in London from the bond be had given to the Custom House. The writer proceeds to express his satisfaction that the Emperor of Russia will have to wait a long time for hie saltpetre, for " that it was intended eventually for Russia," he says logically, " it is quite clear, as Hamburg lies on the direct road to Bt. Petersburg." Without entering into a geographical discussion with this learned Theban further than by remind ing him of the trite axiom, that "all roads lead to Rome," I would wish to explain to your readers the real state of the facts, which will of course be laid before the French Admiralty Court, and no doubt be duly appreciated by them, as it will be found that there was no attempt at fraud to justify or even give a plausibility to the capture of the ship and cargo. The whole transaction was done openly and above board, besides which the shipper of the saltpetre (Mr. Scholts, who, from his official position, u Hano verian Consul-General for Portugal, is not likely to do anything likely to compromise himself or the government of Hanover), the captain to whose order the bills of lading were made out, the shipping port, the destination of the vessel, and lastly the ship itself, were all neutral. But allowing for the sake of argument that the nature of the cargo may be classified as belonging to the so-called contraband of war, it must as positively be asserted that in the commerce of one neutral country with another there is no such thing known as contraband of war. Sir William Scott—an autho rity that the num and its correspondent we presume will not attempt to question—has laid it down u an incontrovertible axiom, in the case of a capture under similar circumstances, " that cargoes shipped to neutral ports can never be considered as contraband of war, all goods going there being equally lawfuL" (The Imima Robinson's Reports, 111., p. 187, &c.) And according to the declaration of the Foreign office under date of October 9, it is expressly stated that the verdicts of the Admiralty courts are to be returned " in conformity with former decisions published in the reports." It is therefore not necessary_ to prove anything else, for though the French and English proclamations on the breaking out of the war did unquestionably name saltpetre as belonging to those articles to be considered as contra band of war, no one will deny that it might be shipped to Hamburg for a huodred other purposes than the manufacture of gunpowder, or sending it on to Russia. In proof of this I may be permitted to refer to the year 1862, when all Europe was at peace, and the possibility of a war breaking . out was antis& pated by no one. In that year the importations of saltpetre at Hamburg amounted to nearly 100,000 cwt., not one tenth part of which was sent to Russia. Besides, it would be next to madness on the part of our clear-headed and practical Hamburg merchants I to attempt shipping saltpetre to Russia, whose ports are blockaded by the British cruisers in summer, and by the ice in winter • and as for sending it such a' great distance by laud, the expanse woald be far too heavy to make it remunerative, and increase the value nearly 60 per cent. Ennis can have saltpetre much cheaper from its own province of Finland, from which it used to be exported formerly, and where it is produced is coesiderable quantities; or if it must absolutely have thou 973 bags, it Would have been much shorter, and saved both time and expense, to have bad it shipped at once from London to a Pruden post in the Baltic. As far as I have been able to anertain, all cargoes of saltpetre shipped to this post direst from the even tries of which they are "the growth or produce,"" have poised the British and Preach cruisers without let or Nadeau*, and oontinned to arrive till within the intim day., when nature pat a temporary stop be eserflinelgo trade by the severity of the frost, trig& pewee that the two belligerent governments motions tp ;sweet the rights of neutrals in the free =stics et any produce sent here for a market. ew than have induced the French cruiser to wins the Vreaw Hoawina, end upon what grounds can the capture be justified? According to the re peat of the Trees' correspondent at Lisbon, the tran saction bears the colouring of hiving been made with a view to circumvent the order in council of the 24th April last, which prohibits the exportation of all articles considered contraband of war—amongst which saltpetre is included—" from British ports to all parts of Europe situated to the north of Dunkirk, ant to all places eastward of Malta." Bet he has failed to bring the slightest proof in corroboration of this assumption, whereas there is nothing to show that the saltpetre in question was not originally destined bona fide for commasption in Portugal. and that in consequence of a fall in the price at Lisbon, or a favourable torn io the market at Hamburg, the owner may not have been induced to tranship it, to which,.o a neutral suldeet resident in a neutral state, he has a perfect right by the principles contained in the universally acknowledged laws of nations. Should it be proved that be has acted contrary to the laws in force in Portugal, then it becomes an affair between hint and 'the Yortnirdrit government, with which no thirdsarty huspay,right . to,usterfers. But of this there is not a word ismil.aor lies the identity of the saltpetre even been proved se being the same .parcel as that ship pe d from London to Lisbon. But it may alseimve happened that the = shipper In London acted coesessetionly, and taut fide that the shipment was really intended for unsamption in Portugal. However, even supposing that be was aware of the intended subsequent trans- I shipment of the saltpet:e to Hamburg, %fine of the value of th e ship men t t o 01 that he is exposed to ; ' for the order in council does rot go further than to prohibit British subjects from ezocuting contraband of war under the penalty of enu t illlsti". No "' word is said about making a prse Pf neutral pro perty under a neutral flag, from a 'centre country to' a neutral port. Its stated object is a motlitievtion of the antecedent order in council (of February 18) prohibiting altogether the export. of those motet band articles, in favour of the general trade of neu trals. I may here mention that the French govern. ment have not thought proper to order any relaxa tion of their original prohibition, as contained in the Imperial Ordinance of February 24, except to autho rise the Minister of Finances to make occasional exeep flocs ; but on the other hand it must not be overlooked that the prohibition does not extend beyond the ter ritory 'object to the French jurisdiction, as is evident ' from the words "soot prolubets la sortie et la rd- ' exportation," and there can be no doubt that this is the interpretation which will be put upon the sub- ject when the case is brought before the French Admiralty Court for adjudication. AUSTRALIA. The screw steamship Great Britain, Captain Grey, arrived in the Mersey on Tuesday morning. MONEY AND TRADE. (From the Melbourne dritstat of Oct. 27j Oar report of the present state of this market may b summed up as follows: In consequence of the improvement in the roads, by the advent of the dry season, there is a little more demand for goods; bat so many failures have taken place, that there is a en-calculi want of confidence, and even the wealthy retailers will not at present increase their stocks. There is no improvement whatever in prices since our last summary, and stooks in first hands remain very heavy. The facts connected with the trade of Melbourne during the put ewe years demonstrate the utter impossibility of regulating supplies from distant markets with the p t detective system of oommunication. Our principal imports have been from three sourees—from the neighbouring colonies, from America (North and S ou th), and from the British Islaiyhs. Our trans with the Australian colonies has been Iterative to all concerned. Almost invariably such goods only have bees ordered and transmitted as were is demand, and a fair, and in many cases a splendid prifit, has been realised. Next, in reference to the American trade, it was at first almost entirely in the hands of inez• perieneed persons. Their first ventures were trial ship• meats, and many of them as a matter of course were unpro fitable. But with that remarkable aptitude for business which is a characteristic of Americans, the branches of boom from America established here have become tho roughly " posted," and now we believe that no trade in the world is established on sounder or safer principles than that between Victoria and the United States. In reference to the trade with the United Kingdom the contrast is so marked, the over•trading—the madness, we may say—has been so great and so suicidal, that, to persons who do not know the facts, the most plain and prosaic re cital will be deemed 'itineration. At this risk, however, we shag detail a few facts. About the middle of 1863, it became evident that sup. plies fer beyond our requirements were pouring into Mel bourne. Of this due notice wu given, and we can vouch that for many months nothing but the most gloomy com mercial accounts have gone periodically to England. Let us examine what effect these have had. We shall speak ettiefiy of the trade of Melbourne, but in order that our readers may utidentand its relative proportion to that of the whole enlocy, we may mention that In 1853, when the imports of Victoria were valued at 15,842,6371., thou of Melbourne were 14,098,351. We have anted that is the middle of 1863, it was discovered that shipments were en. outlive. The canna was in the first quarter of 1851, when the value of imports at Melbourne was 5,303,1811. But the subsequent imports were ea follows : Second quarter A:3,262,384 Third quarter And we cannot estimate the fourth quarter at less than 3,000,000 Acid for first quarter, ea above 5,303,184 £16,418,418 Bo that, notwithstanding the untinised atatementa for a year pest of over supplies, the value of goods imported in 1864 will extseed the enormous amount in 1853 by 1,312,1671. Our last summary would show the effect of the glut in 1863 ; namely, that British msnufactures contl not be sold at a profit. We cannot in the present summary hold out any better hors. It is certainly reported that the ship• meats hate fallen off is Britain, and during the last three weeks the arrivals have been lets; hat even supposing that there has been a eetsation of shipments, many months, probably a year, mat elapse before a healthy or legitimate elate of trade can be established in reference to very many articles of British manufacture. The continued depression has bad a d;sistrons effect on many minor traders particularly those (and their name is legion) who are paying high rents. The banks for a long time continued liberal in their discount*, and, having locked up their funds, they are now scarcely able to meet the de maids of legitimate trade. It is • remarkable fact, that among the numerous icsolveneits that have taken place there is scarcely one in which landed property is pert of the assets. It was generally considered that the 4th inst., when very heavy liabilities became due, wee • test of the siund nos of our mercantile body, and the engagements laving been all but universally met, there is now greater confi dence, and there is no feu of any commercial crisis. The outriders will be gradually weeded out, and trade in the end will be placed on a more legitimate basis. THE LABOUR MARKET. At the data of oar last overland summary, by the Madras, on 22nd September then was some excitement among our working classes in consequence of a portion of them being oat of employment. It now appears that this was little more than a temporary clog in the wheels of industry, which can be easily explained. The worker men of Victoria have bad the The of building and adorning Melbourne and Geelong. The people of Castlemalne, of Sandbunt of Ballard, of Beselivrorth, and of fits other townships, have patiently waited till this was accomplished. The moment it was announced that there were unemployed men in Mel bourne sad Geeing, applications pound is from Portland, from Warrnambool, from Gipps Lead, and from the distant ieterior, and new we quote from the latest reports of labour markets as follows :—Geelong says, there is little to note in the state of the labour market since last circular. Most of the surplus labour has been drafted off." And Melbourne is still mon emphatic—" there kas bees a onsiderable reduction in the labour market ; mon activity has prevaikd, with fewer hands offering,. Many hirings have occurred during the week for egricultural and pastoral purpose', and many mechanics have migrated into the lath rim, and *laden employment A storekeeper at Sand hurst, lately in town, mentioned to us his ideation to build a dose store, and that the wages of masons were 36e. per day. He also stated that a workman at Sandhunt can lin cheaper than in Melbourne, became, although groceries and previsions generally are dinner, his red, wood, meter, and butane' meat are lase *emissive. The prices of labour, whin have been fluctuating during the last four or five weeks, appear now to have settled themselves down to the rates enumerated below. General employment Yea bees deck, but is now somewhat men brisk. At this Undo( the year hirings for the buy seams of the agricultural trade may Wind to comment. For the skilled mechanic in all branches of the building ends wages appear to have settled down to from 20s. to 26e. per day, end employment is decidedly more plodded for both skilled and unskilled labour. STATIONEIte MUTUAL BRII.FIT SOCILTT.—The tenth 1 meeting of this moiety was held at lister Hall, on Tuesday arming ; Mr. W. 0. Mitebell (the treasarerl fa the *hair. Prom the which was lanai mouly adopted, it appeared that " the iso years of the soeiety'a Olige01:41 6691.9.. 6d. had loses espiallei fa relief to members in their richness, and 106. to members on the death of their wives, or, on the dela; of nielahl" to their widows or 1101111b44111." It also stated that ahig trayling all claims these:matinee bad been able to hived a fartbio , sem of 1601., melding the total &motet Moored 1,6701. 71. Bd. After the meal votes of thanks to the cheers, and a well deserved compliment to Mr. Rite,. the beaerary secretary, the meeting proceeded to oseialder What souses should be taken with regard to the bills before Wile:went relating to friendly societies and sating, beaks, and appointed a com mittee to watch such bills, and take such steps as might seem to them advisable. Trig COROMiIi . FOR KART SURREY resumed, on Tuesday, the adjourned inquiry osseerning the respective deaths of Grohs* Jesse, aged 99, and Mary Ann Jones, aged two years and. two months. who died from the effects of anode. The jury, lifter coosaltiag, returned a verdict, " That the deceased perms respectively died _fluelom— arsenic ; that it was administered to them in to the father of the child and husbaad of the woman, and that It was the malt of accident." The inquiry than terminated. OItrISTAL PALACZ, law. 24.-131IILLUNG DAL-- Lambdas at the doors, 699; ad:wisdom by season Value% 160: total. 769. The Boston Atlas proclaims the fad that America is represented in Spain by a Prenohman,in Portugal by an H Irishman, In Italy by an Italian, at the ague oil a Grm ean Jew, and at Naples by a Semi. Norm Warmers Itan.WAY.—Trafilo for week ending Jan. 21, 1866: —Pmeengen, p= se asmimi, saes, and Braila, 23,3611. 6s. 44. ; sser . two% 111r i a. • east* 1,1024.75. 26. Teta, 46,3071. h. 11 Coe. responding week... 1164, 47,2014. Os. 10d. GMAT NONTREIOI RAILWAT.—RerneII of traffic lar week ending Jan 14, 1866 r—PeMsergers, pared% sar dines. harass, &vomit ssaib, 6,3441. Os. ad; esersbandiso and minerah, 10.9001. 7s. Id. ; cattle. 6021. 4a. Od.— Tend, 17, 00 e 1 . Corresponding week. MK 17,11101. 14s. 14. °Sian% 5IX00; AND Hu*oP ganwaY.-- Trak for the week enatagpse. SO, 18114, 6971 h. Id. cor responding week, 1653, 3784. 13 e. Sd. Inatese 1864, 8181.95. 41 Vbe Court. WINDSOR, hit. 24. The Queen and Prince walked in the Home Park this morning. The Prince of Wales and Prima Alfred enjoyed the version of skating. The Prioress Royal and younger royal children took their moil exorcist Msyor•Qeneral Simpson arrived yesterday afternoon, had the honour of dining with her Majesty, and returned te Loudon this forenoon. A Cabinet Council (summoned to meet at 2 o'clock] was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-o ffi ce, Downing-street. Th e ministers present were the, Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquil of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmer ston, the Earl of Clarendoo, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, Earl Gran ville, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir Wil liam Molesworth. The Council broke up at 10 minutes put 5 o'clock, and the Earl of Aberdeen immediately left London for Windsor Castle, to have l an audience of the Queen. A deputation had an interview yesterday with Sir Beals_ name Hall, President of the Genstarßoard of Health, at itf. office, Whitehall, from the District Surveyors appointed under the Metropolitan Buildings Act. The deputation was introduced by Mr. Thomas Alcock, M.P., and consisted of the fodowing gentlemen :—Professor Donaldson (South Kensington District), Mr. Pownall (St. George and St. Giles, Bloomsbury), Mr. Clutch (Paddington), Mr. Kendall (St. hintin's-in-the-Fields and St. Anne, Soho), Hr. God win (South Islington), and Mr. Hesketh (Bermondsey). • A deputation from the Psddingt n Vestry, also Lad an interview yesterday with Sir Benjamin non at the office of the General Board of Health, Whitehall. The deputation: caudated of Mr. Churchwarden Baylis, Messrs. Kemshead, Bunlem, and Lambert Jones, and Lieut.-General Peter Do N Motte, attended by Mr. Frederick Aveling, Vestry Clerk. The Belgian Chargé d'Aff.ires had an interview yester day with the Esrl of Clarendon at the Foreign-office. Despatchea were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the West India Colonies. Among the officers returning to England in the Harbinger are the gallant Sir Thomas Troubridge, who loet both his legs et lokermann, and Captain Macdonald, of the 06th, who received in the same battle no less than 17 wounds, of which 16 were by the bayonet. Yesterday, a deputation of district surveyors under the Metropolttan Buildings Act, introduced by Thomas Aloock, Esq., M.P ., and consisting o f Professor Donaldson, Mr. Pownall, Mr. Clutch, Mr. Kendall, Mr. Godwin, and Mr. Hesaeth, waited upon Sir Benjamin Hall, the President of the Board of Health, with reference to the allegation contained in a letter of the secretary of the board to Lord Palmerston, of their having omitted to take sufficiently stringent steps with regard to cellar dwellings and nosious trades. They pointed out to him the imper fect nature of the data upon which the letter was founded, and the incorrect interpretation given to them. They pro ceeded to show that the requirements of the act as to cellar dw clings did not give the district surveyors the powers at tributed to them, and that no instance have occurred of illegal establishment of new noxious trades and businesses, the continuance of the said ones being permitted by the ex isting law till 1874. We regret to learn the death of the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Franklend Lewis, Bart., M.P.—a gentleman who has for nearly forty years filled various offices of trust and honour. Rs was a commissioner of inquiry into the Irish us in 1821, and into that of Great Britain and Ireland from 1822 to 1825; Secretary to the Treasury in 1827 ; Vies• President of the Board of Trade in 1828 ; Trea surer of the Navy in 1830 ; chairman of the Poor Law Com mission from 1834 to 1839 ; and a commissioner to inquire into the turnpike outrages in 1843. Sir Fraokland Lewis represented Beaumaris in parliament from 1812 till 1826, Ennis from 1826 to 1828, Radnorshire from 1828 to 1835, and Radnor singe 1847. There is now a vacancy in the re presentation of the last-named borough. Sir Thomas is succeeded in the title by his son, Mr. George Cornwall Lewis, formerly Secretary of the Treasury, and now editor of the ledisbut glt Review. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, JAN. 24.—APPOINTWENTB.—Com mender J. P. Luce (1854) to the Artel, 9, screw steam sloop, at Portsmouth. Assistant• Surgeon J. S. Ayerst (1847), to the Calcutta, 84, at Devonport. Clerks' Assistant F. L. Page, to the DuLe of Wellington, 130, screw steamship, of 780 bone-power, at Bpithead. Tenders will be received by the Admiralty on the 30th lint, for the conveyance of ordnance stores to Malta, New South Wales, Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, and Melbourne; and provisions to Gambia, Rio Janeiro, and Valparaiso. Two captain, four subalterns, six sergeants, two drummen, and 100 rank and file from each depot of regi ments serving in the Crimea, are ordered to be held in readiness for immediate embarkation for Malta, where they will form a provisional depot to the army under Lord Raglan. The authorities of the Royal Clarence Victualling Establishment. Gosport, are aow loading the transport, late, Louisa, Margaretta, and Shannon, with provisions for Malta and the Crimea. Major General Henry William Breton is appointed to the Lienten6nt-Governonbip of Portsmouth and the command in chief of the eonth•wat military district PORTSMOUTH, Jaw. 24. The Retribution, 28, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, Captain Tatham, arrived at Spithead late last night, from the Crimea and Malta. She has brought home 49 invalided and wounded soldiers, who were landed this morning, and conveyed to the Military Hospital in this garrison. Lien tenant Cator, 68th Light Infantry, who is wounded, comes home by this ship. The Retribution bean very strong proof of the severity of the treatment she received at Sebastopol dur ing the attack on the tuts by the English and French Beets. Her mainmast is quite goes, having been knocked away by a shell, whilst her rigging is almost entirely destroyed. Her hull also has marks of shot and shell in several phew. The Retribution hu mede the voyage from Constantinople to this port in 21 days, including her stoppage at Malta. The Sprightly, steamer, Muter Commander Allen, sailed this afternoon for Plymouth with supernumerary mama for the ships fitting there. The Penelope, 16, paddle steam frigate, Captain Coffin, was taken out of the steam buds this afternoon. The Rajah, steamer, is loading alongside the dockyud with the remeleder of the wooden huts for the Crimea. Ths Canadian, anew steam ship, will embark about 1,200 men, drafts of various regiments in t►e Crimea, OR Friday next. Tits James Watt, 91, screw ship, Captain Elliot, is having her foremast stripped, requiring a new one. SHEERNESS, J*i. 24. The Desperate, 8, screw steam ship, was taken into the fitting basis, yesterday, to be refitted for immediate service. DEVONPORT, Jeri. 24. The Malays, 51, *crew, is to be got ready with all possible spud. Her crew hu been granted 14 days• eau. The Cesar, Captaia Robb, is being fitted for the nuptials of troop.. The Calcutta is lying is the Sound, under orders to sail. The Nile will come out of dock en Friday hut. SOUTHAMPTON, JAL 24. The. royal MCI etemsei &veto, now at this port, snag Op ea a hoipaid ship for thißlaek Sea, wit be ready fa a day er two. The royal snail steamer Avon, chartered she foe the Black Else, is rapidly refitting. the United States clipper ship Whim Palma, taking in hots for the French soldiers in tits Crimes, ie nearly loaded. The Crones and Ili:inlays are still la the dry docks. The latter will not have seek extensive alterations =WO on her as was first proposed by the government. The transport steamers Loa and Simla ere shortly expected at Southampton from the ➢lack Elm. WARN Currango ma THE So lowish is a list et theuledting illeembeekeld at • JA , Jean 9 :—Weollen. Jersey', 49,480 • 4 ,7:: ••• • ..c1 48,448; eoi kr (pain), 86,288 ; oomtorte2 , owl* fr`lr b ow (* T o, 26,2130; shoe. (Pain), 4,1 i • 6,000; soma, 6,934 ; great cctw, 10,000 Of other toomforte that easy. be domed with r' WWII leaded Buffalo robes, 12,061; Imo; V rf 19,21,10; bolster itemei, 21,800; bleakelk • Ow! bF Oin tbe zas. a).a -o "4 4 6 :stra. ; IbilvililA POST- • • ‘lB/ .. i . ; "1 1866 —bails Tat hokum minor money ••P ; be opened at the undermentioned places i—Brynstio, Ben. birthaltire ; Kaaborougb, Yorkshire; Tanya, blerioaetti•