The Express. — London, England, 1855-03-02 00:00:00

THE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER STAMPS. The return of newspaper stamps just issued gives he following resslu: First Quarter. Second Quarter. . 319,191 348,044 303 000 299,000 . 206.000 228,000 . 162,500 186,000 . . 177,133 198,389 . . 176.000 196,000 . . . 168,000 192,000 . . . 103,000 104,000 Daily News Morning Herald . Morning Poet . Morning Chronicle Express Globe Sun . Standard k erVITOL TO CORRESPONDENTS. &WI/4,w r.te inteivled for "The Leper.," London Evening paper, most b he Moe, 10, Boueeriootreet, by Two o'doet oat the day ol publieetioa. 1116111 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAT —Morning, lb. Size A141.11301/11, lb. SUL 1011011,1LoW —Morsieg, 211. lSs itterse.as, 26. 330. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 2. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD ALLEGED ILLNESS OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. We ( Times, second edition,) have received the fol lowing telegraphic despatch from our Berlin cor respondent:— BERLIN, FRIDAY. "News was received here last night that the Emperur of Russia is seriously ill. "It is added that the. physicians despair of his recover). " The dinner at Court to-day in honour of Lord John Russell has been deferred." (BY ILIC7IIIO TILIOZAPIL) BERLIN, TRITZSDAT, Itsacz 1. Lord John Russell arrived in this capital yester day at noon. In the afternoon he had a long interview with the minister President Baron von Mantauffel. To-day (Thursday, noon), Lord John Russell had an audience of the Kiog in the presence of M. Man tsuffel.—Daily Newt (DT BLECTIIO TILIOTU2E.) PARIS, THURSDAY. The Moniteur announces the Emperor's journey to the camps of Bt. Omer and Boulogne, and adds that his absence will be het of short duration. THE REPULSE OF THE RUSSIANS AT EUPATORIA. The Muni/cur of yesterday contains the following telegraphic despatches : EUPATORIA, F . 's. 21. Since the 17th no new attempt has been made against Eupatoria. To-day we have seen Russian infantry columns and trains of waggons moving sway in the direction of Simpheropol. Several vil lira in the neighbourhood are now burning. Three heavy guns have been landed, and new works of fortification are in course of construction. KAMIESCH, F2H. 20. On the 17th Eupatoria was attacked by a Russian force Of about 25,000 men, under General Osten•Sacken. The attaking farce was composed of 12 regiments of infantry, 6 regiments of caulry, and 80 pieces of artillery. The combat lasted from half-put Are in the morning until ten o'clock. The Russians were vigorously repulsed. Their loss is estimated at about 600 killed, the number of wounded being in proportion. The Turks lost 88 men killed, and 250 woundei. They have also lost 70 horses. Selina Pasha and Colonel Ruston Bey are killed. Of the French, kw gunners of the war ship Henry IV. were killed, and ten other French combatants lure been wounded. The Rus sians have not since renewed the attack. The steam ships anchored in the roads contributed to the defence of the town. I have sent the Brandon and Nisgere to Eupatoria. Admiral Lyons has sent thither a frigate and a steam cor vette, with two gun boats. The Moniteur publishes a further despatch from Bucharest relating to the same affair, and stating that Suleiman Pacha was wounded and SeUm Pacha killed. On the night after the action, which was bitterly cold, the 'Wigan' bivouacked without fire or tents, and in the morning drew off towards Shn pheropol. Four English, one French, and one Turkish steamer took part in the affair of the 17th. EN, 11Aacu 1. MM. Bluhme, Spouneck, and lisneenbille, have been cited to appear before a special committee, con sisting of 25 members of the Volkathing, who are most hostile to the late Ministry, to answer for ex seeding the budget without the permission required by the Constitution. It will then be decided whether impeachment takes place. LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF mained a little longer unrepresented ; and the ex plosion at length took place that blew Conservative resistance to atoms for many a day. Lord PAL MERSTON is now in the opposite position, and his argument is the converse of what it then was—the subject of reform being in the present instance the national army instead of the national representation. He cannot believe that a total change will be precipitated by the refusal of moderate con cessions. He recognises the principle of Lord GODS RICH% motion, but will not act upon it. He relies on what has already been done, just as his colleagues did in 1828 on the mere disfranchisement _ _ of Ra;it Retford ; and u they dreamed of thereby tranquillising the public mind, so now it is imagined that the fact of one sergeant in each regiment having been given an ensigncy in acknowledgment of his merit will reconcile the nation to the continuance of the system of promotion by purchase in all ranks of the service. The noble member for Huddersfield pointed out very clearly that to take a single individual from the ranks, and to place him among officers differently educated, without any hope or prospect of ever being able to raise himself further as a commissioned officer, was no fair trial of the system of fair play and no favour. Lord Gormatca also, with praise worthy firmness, refused to be mollified by Lord PALMERSTON'S " soft sawder," seeing that his colleagues held such different language. But we think Lord GODERICH, in his natural desire to conciliate support for his proposal, and to disarm antagonism, seemed disposed to yield too much, when he said that all he asked was that such individuals should not here after be so few, and that, after they had obtained their first commission, Government should continue to keep its eye upon them, in order to promote them farther whenever they should die- tiaguish themselves. We fear that, were it possible to act effectually on this suggestion, it would give rise to jealousies and enmities that would soon em bitter the lives of those in whose favour the plan of special favour had been devised. In a word, we are inclined to say that so long as you can only do jus tice by way of special grace and bounty, no healthy spirit of reform can be looked for in the army. The UNDER-SECRETARY for WAR, in the coarse of his dreary and inconsistent attempt at a reply, ad mitted that the system of purchase and the system of raising all who deserved commissions from the ranks were incompatible, and could never be made really to co-exist. In the French service every step is open to promotion on the score of merit as well as the first: hence it works well. Seniority and merit are formed into a kind of double or alternative claim. Of the lieutenants, two-thirds become captains by seniority, and one-third by merit.. Of the captains, one-half are promoted to the grade above them by merit, and the other half by seniority—and so on to the hightst ranks ; merit becoming more, and age less, influential as the aspirant to command ascends the ladder of promotion. This is a combina tion well worthy of consideration by army reformers generally; but it is undoubtedly too true that our system of advancement in the navy is tainted with a reproach quite as grave as that which it is sought to wipe away from the military branch of the profession of arms, although in the navy there is no such thing as purchase of commissions. The debate of last night will be read with anxiety by thousands of every class throughout the land. It will certainly not satisfy the enthusiastic friends of justice to our soldiery; nor will it, on the other hand, set at rest wholly the misgivings of those whose craft is in danger. But it will do good. It will set people thinking how the coming change may be most safely and equitably effected; and it will prove to the most haughty and overbearing defenders of the flippant phrase—" gentlemen for the army, and the army for gentlemen"—that they must expand their test to conduct, and intelligence, and worth, nor hope any longer to limit its meaning to birth and wealth. It is not by arguments like thee of Lord SET MOUB—Who, with his usual pride in facing unpopu larity, seems resolved to stand by aristocratic exclu sion to the last—that the spirit now enkindled amongst the thoughtful and disinterested community at large will be put down. The fact that the British army is the only one in Europe where commissions are bought and sold publicly and legally, is worth a world of doctrinaire dialectics; and the touching tribute of one witness like Sir Ds LACY Eyelet, to the worth of the unrewarded soldiery, and the wither ing effects of the present military regime, will out weigh in every fairly-constituted mind all the sophistry and unreason that can be enlisted in its defence. Nevertheless, we must repeat what we have said already, that it lies with the people mainly to determine at what pace the question shall ad vanes. The instincts of the existing House of Com mons are inveterately opposed to any substantial change; and until the pressure of opinion in the constituencies shall have been brought steadily to bear upon sham Liberals and flexible Tories, no man, or set of men, will be able to force open the gates of promotion to military merit.—Daily News. THE VOTE UPON LORD GIODEIUCH'S MOTION. Among the usual supporters of the Coalition Ministry who voted last evening in favour of the above motion were : Hon. E. P. Bouverie, R. Currie, E. Elliott, R. M. Mines, F. C. Russell, and E. Strutt. There were a few Conservatives also, viz. :—E. Ball, J. B. Moore, Sir A. T. Campbell, G. °toenail, and H. Gwyn. Mr. Dillwya, who took the Who and his seat for Swamies few hours before, was amongst the minority. The Liberals who voted against the motion, in cluded—R. A. Adair, C. L. G. Berkeley, J. Brother ton, Viscount Gallstone, Lord Robert Groevenor, Sir B. 11all, G. Hanley, Sir Wm. Moteamorth, B. Ricardo, and R. B. Roche. The Peelites voted in a body against the motion. No vote was given by Mr. Disraeli, but Sir John Pakington was amongst the " Nose." COMMONS. AT length the serious &octagon of the subject of Army Reform has begun in Parliament. When will it end ? The stone once set a-rolling, who will pre tend to stop its course ? The vie inertia of Govern ment is great, but greater in the long run will be found the power of public opinion. At what rate Government will be moved in the direction of con cession must depend on the people themselves. Lord Gooratica's motion may be designated as the modest preface to the case which Parliament will soon be forced to hear—ay, and to heed, too—on behalf of the gallantry of the middle and working cams of the nation. In times past, while men of all ranks have been called on to shed their blood la defence of country, those who belated to the pri vileged order were alone rewarded. Is more recent days, the heart of monopoly appears to have gra dually waxed faint, and, silently and patronisingly, maps of justice have been flung out, in the hope of appeasing or stilling the demand of general right. As happened in the am of Commercial Reform, we had amendment in the tariff profeeeedly brought forward without the least idea of abandoning the emential principle of the old system, and Canada Corn Bills supported with emphasis by the etanchest advocates of Protection. A still TRIAL OF MDLLIL DOUDET. THE VERDICT. PALRIS. WRDNIIIIDAT. • • Ia the Court of the Seine this dq th; presidia( jadp sunned up very strongly against the prisoner The Jury Mind tar 26 valuta, and then brought la a verdict of NOT GUILTY. Dr. Ilarodea is decreed to pay the costs, which will be sore striking illustration may be derived front the history of Electoral Reform. In 1828, the meant Pam= and Mr. Rusiresorr, believing that the days of the close boroughs were drawing to an sad, proposed to let off the gathering steam by en. hanchieing Birmingham and Manchester. They Idled to marina their (*Soignee and their party, however, that the stem was getting up on the Bab. Jest. Sir Roarer Pm and Lord LYNDHURST aide way with their warnings ; the great towns t *sernone' lidlle. Daudet is detained in prima, to be tried on the minor etneeet for pastel ill-elege, before the Tribneal of Comedies! Polies. La haseesee essiation, geserally one et disapprobation sad astoniebetest, was oecesioued in the owl by the delivery of the vadiet. FOSMON 07 NAVAL AssISTANT-Stl7.o llo2lB . — The sludeste of St. Bartholomew's Hospital bell s esesting ea Wednesday, ia seennuings with the sale beepiesle, st win* tin =Wag Aininiti residelisse Maga ID the sand anielieSensesens wars earlisinseS sendseasd. sod thessolig masted not to semi emplsysersd seer Ids Adrift while sub wafixashabies. OMNI. wile CMiell himse lf u a eindidese Sur • sennisdho is tie Will" Is asked Onmsel Vi vien these 1 saapsesdi bona sok esstisue 9a hose OW we lens bYor be oily lesel ? 2. Shell we naive is Teeny the per pa y 'be bowel teak greased W 3. WM ens noversnient our expenses to the plies at trbtalt we }simile seediness ? Lad that General Vivisa was suable W give s &slid owes." THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1855. THE ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. (PIOY TEE SPECIAL DAILY iup by the transport', and bought 23 pairs of high Rona leather boot", as " gift to the best men of his Imumpany. Nothing can be more kind and creditable than this act of liberality; but it must be confessed it is a pity that there was occasion for it. The Bth Hussar", too, are very badly off for boat.g, in spite of the vast quantities sent out. I understand that a good Imany of the men cannot appear at muster, but are I confined to their tents, because they have no boots to ' stand in. x3WS.) BALAKLAVA, Fn. 16. For the last few days the weather has been ex tremely mild, and a strong sirocco, sometimes squally, but always hot and dry, has effectually dried the ground, and done more for the roads than a fortnight of dry weather of the usual kind. The phenomenon is useful and curious, bat far from agreeable. In the ' 1 hospitals it has given an impetus to fever, which be fore made but slow and covert progress. Even those who are to be in good health suffer from loss of sleep, digestion, and appetite, from healed blood, dryness of the skin, and an excess of thirst. The sirocco, unlike the hot, humid winds at Malta, absorbs the moisture of bodies u well as that of the ground, and affects even the strongest with a striate feeling of best and discomfort. To the superfield observer it would appear as if winter were over, and summer, with all its beats, fast approaching. But there is no sun. The sky is cloudless, and wears a dull leaden hue, with here and there a rownish streak in the west. The air, as it rushes along, now steadily and again with violent gusts, which remind us of the hurricane of November, is as the hot breath from a furnace, and of the same temperature at midnight and at the noon of day. Small gnats are carried along by the hot wind, and bright yellow flowers have sprung up among the aromatic herbs that cover the mountains. In spite of the gusts and squalls of die wind the sea appears calm, seen from the rocks, and it is with a heavy lazy swell that what waves there are break against Balaklava bluff l and the rocky base of Cape Fiolente. I The army, who are new to these vagaries of the season, regard them with some astonishment, and a food deal of pleasure. If the sirocco dies a natural death, stifled by its own heat and baue fal breath, without being followed by ano ther week of rains, the ground will be in excellent condition for the movements of troops and the manoeuvres of artillery. That hot wind, stealing a march upon the season, will have ripened the time for action. In that case, if the Russians fail to attack us, they will not pin anything by their forbearance, for the allied armies will attack them. Indeed, the French plan of investing the north side of Sebastopol is impracticable, without a previous engagement in the plain. The northern aide is separated from our entrenched camp by a sys tem of deep ravines, and by the Tehernaya river. It is disconnected from and out of the line of our defences as prescribed by the nature of the ground, and our communication with a corps detached on that service would be at once difficult and precarious, while that corps, isolated for the time being, would be ex posed to the attacks of the Russian army. The general opinion is that the investment of the north side will take place only after the allied armies have punished the Russians, and compelled them to seek the protec tion of their entrenched camp at Baktchi Sergi. That (FROM AN OFFICER OF THE LIGHT DIVISION.) sition, tolerably strong by nature, has been still fur ther strengthened by the skill of the Russian en- CAMP ABOVE SEBASTOPOL, Fee. 11. gineen It is protected by cannon of very heavy calibre, brought from Sebastopol within the last few The wind is blowing in strong gusts from the N.W., there is a driving storm of sleet and snow, months. To do the Russians justice, they do not allow and my canvas residence is not the most agreeable, difficulties to stand in the way ofeafety. It is neces- but I will write you a line for to-morrow s mail. I say to confine the Russian army in this entrenched have been looking out for another letter from you, but position, and it is doubtful whether more is intended for neither got one from home nor from yourself this mail. the present. Much depends on considerations fami- We have papers to the 26th. At last the country seems liar only to the commanders of the two armies. A aroused, and every one here is expecting that Lord good deal will also depend upon the state of the Raglan and the Quartermaster-General(who everyone weather, and the temper and condition of the enemy says is an utter failure) at least will have to leave. whom we shall find in the plain. The great recon- Ido not think we should lose if the head of the saissance in force, which I mentioned in my last let- medical department, Dr. Hall, and the Adjutant tees, is expected every day, and doubtless the Ras- General Estcourt, cum multi* ails, went too. How mans expect it also. The movement is not spouts- ever, the railroad is getting on fast. To-day (Sun neous, but forced upon us by the circumstances, of day) Lord Raglan offered to allow the navvies a day which the Russian generals are as good judges as and a quarter's wages if they would work, but they we are. Oar intentions cannot be a secret to them. would not. They agreed to go on if be would give But the time to carry our plans into execution is a them double pay ; but Lord Raglan would not do secret, and that secret belongs to General Canrobert, this, and consequently all is at a stand-still until to who intends surprising the enemy, not by the move- morrow. The road is made for some distance out went but by the period and mode of making IL Those of Balahlses' and the sleepers are down; by to who do not actually take part in the adventure will morrow evening it is expected that a mile of rails know the event only by the distant thunders of the will be laid, and by the end of the week file miles. battle, which will most likely be heard from Kaman The rails are now laid down from the wharf to the on our right wing, and the banks of the Tehernaya on middle of what was a short time since, before our left. All this is on the supposition that the enemy do the shopkeepers were turned out, the principal corn not attack us before we make our movement in ad- mercial street of Balaklava. A stationary engine at vance. If the sirocco holds on, and the ground the top of the b ill s b the verge of the plateau, will draw remains dry, the next mail, or that which follows it, up the trucks wire rope ; and the loads once on will at length bring . you news of actions and events. the plateau itself, half the difficulty of moving them We have no positive information of what has hap- to the front is over. What a valuable achievement pened at Eupatoris. The last rumour which floats this will bet about the camp is that of a battle between the Rule The Russians are either jealous of our going into sians and Omer Pacha's troops. It is said that the Balaklava so freely by the side of the Woronzoff Russians were defeated. This, though very likely to road, part of which has been used of late, or elms be true, is mere amnion, derived frem unreli- determined to prevent any more reconnaissances able sources, and mouthed about with sublime in- toward the Baidary district ; for they are now in con difference as to whether or not it is believable or be- sidenble numbers, and busily at work erecting a new 1 i s t he Another rumour, which amuses the camp, battery on the crest of the !unjust below the village is the return home of the Earl of Lncan, the expres- of Kaman—or rather where the village was, for it sion of whose wishes, it is said, have been antici- was destroyed some time since. The high road leading to the valley of Raider in this direc pated, by his being relieved from the command of the tion, and by this route General passes in commanding cavalry. The next few days will give us certainty u the French cavalry, took his troops when he made to the fortunes of Omer Pada and the noble earl. the reconnaissance about a month since. I suppose You see, we live in the future and for the future, the Russian battery will be about two-and-a-half or I rather than in the present , too, nt, though the present, three miles from our nearest work. I wish we had a does most assuredly wear a brighter aspect than the Lancaster or a 13-inch in position, just to give them pest. It gives one a feeling of pleasure and comfort, a surprise now and then. They are plainly visible, seen during the prevalence of hot winds, to see our working away like bees in a hive. men in warm and comfortable clothing though late, not too late, for, however early the spring , we Feb . It froze • very severely last night, but this shall have cold nights and mornings in plenty, morning the wind has got round to the south-west, to take the shine out of those staring, b ig and it is now thawing. The plain is covered with fur coats, and make them worth the wear. mud. The melted snow does not penetrate into But these coats—how painfully they must affect the ground and lies everywhere in small puddles. Fifty martinets—if any such antediluvian animals still pairs of long boots have been issued to each regiment, survive in the array! What the troops have gained and they are found very . beneficial both in keeping in comfort, they have lost in uniformity ; and the out the wet and also in maintaining an equable warmth coats they wear, as they come from all quarters, so about the legs and ankles. A vessel with officers' they are of all colours lengths, and fashions, from winter clothing—the Black Prince—is in harbour at the plain white shee pskin to the brown-red of the Balaklava, and I presume the cargo will be issued Hungarian coat—from the fur jacket to the fur tear. non. Huts are slowly springing up here and there. tout, reaching down considerably below the knee. A regiment in this division has contrived to pt up The sight of a scarlet coat is almost unheard of in and have ready for occupation no less than eight of the camp; and that brilliant colour, being unusual, these houses. ',,lt all depends on the number of startles the beholden, and makes them stare. And public horses in possession of the regiment. Some' , oh! if the admirers of the kilt and the brawn/ regiments have been fortunate in receiving their bat knees of the Hieland laddie could bat see our Scots horses from Varna safely, other regiments lost many regiments! I guess they would look at the chicks there; some have secured a goodly number of stray , with unco' marvel, and hardly acknowledge them horses; some have had left to them for public use as countrymen. I myself, weakened by disease, horses which were the property of officers gone away must confess to a feeling of astonishment, and on sink or other leave of absence; and so, in various even terror, when, a few days ago, alter a length- wa y s, the means of transport he become very dif ened absence, lode into the Highlanders' camp ferent in amount u different regiments. Upon these on the heights. For some moments I was doubtful means have for some time past depended the supplies, for that regiment which had most horses could bring whether I had not missed my way, and got into a Russian encampment, for the sentries I passe d up most rations, most fonge, fuel, clothing, wood for stood bold upright, with a composure which seemed huts, and stores of all sorts. This will perhaps in almost Scythian their faces half hid by fur ceps and some measure account for the various desenptions of beards and mou ' etachios, their bodies wrapt in sheep- our condition in camp in published letters from the skin coats reaching down to the knees , and the i r Crimea bearing the same date. For some days past the sick have been sent to Balaklava by the private legs encased in stout boots of Russia leat her, whose upper extremity disappeared b eneat h th e ample resources of each regiment. The officers who were folds of their coats. lit:lapped, b ear d e d men, sending in their horses to Balaklava for supplies, d swathed in sheepskins and stuck in high boots , stood as well as the company halt horses, have carrie at the doors of the huts, or stooped over the camp them in. This plan has greatly relieved the fires ; and so outlandish and truly Russian was the camp . hospitals, but the number of sick N icene that I could not but fancy I had fallen into matting is still very great. Since the rations have the hands of the Muscovite, and dim visions of a improved, however, there his been a general tour to Kiew, with my hands tied to the mane of a improvement in the condition of the men. The horse, flitted disagreeably before my eyes. Oh ! how cones, after all that has been written, has at last been anxiously did I look for &plumed cap, a kilter a pair issued in the routed state, but not ground. This is of naked loge—not even Etty in his boldest aspire- one point gained. No fuel is issued, and the men dons felt so morbid a hankering after the nude. Nor have now to go so far on the right for it that it has did I regain my composure until from one of the become very dangerous. One man of the Second h ut , t h en aims th e a h e m t ones of a b ag pip e , Division last week had his head blown away by a per squeaking out the familiar and singularly appro. tion of a shell while gathering some bush fee fuel, „ n u ts tuna o f a Sh ou ld m ild acquaintance b e f orgo t p e and two others were wounded. The labour of dig- Certainly not, VI can help it. With these words, ging up the roots--the best kind of fuel to be got— end a hearty liming on the pipes, I pushed my Is very great Many of the phikaxes are bent and Voss forwai d e aw l traversed the encam pment, w ith their handles broken at this work. Wouldyou believe lismuisuenmeation of safety which none but those it--up to this date no means have been established Owed hem the fear of &Russian prim= oan appreciate. for repairing these necessary implements when in ns blib stoat boots served out to some of the jived! If the tools in present= of a regiment are 1 seems* sae excellent, and will a hundred-fold broken in part--a handle or so merely wanted—they egg admit, by preserving the health and increes- must be thrown aside, ooadenned by proper antho- Wes the wearers. On the other hand, rity, and new implements obtained on requisition. ensue of dm foots sent out are bitterly corn- Complicated as our system is, it is certainly not an slid of, luaus the leather is bad, and breaks economical one. taw a flartedight's wear, because they are not high I can't tell you word day the newbatteries will open lossih, ar.d because the fest are too small, so that —various days are named, but no reliance is to be these who wear them do not march, bat limp. Of suck placed on these rumours. Many guns hues been fealty materials and make are the boots served out now mounted me the right, and great qv/entities of to the Grenadier Guards, who have refined much shot and shell are ready for use. A day bee bean from. want of proper protection to their feet, that named for theanault, bat I do not Wince& maid the private liberality GI the Aeon had to be ex-, it. We alkali not take Sebastopol br, =auk mire erted to keep the men efficient One officer, Captain Various rumours are going about. Ore is that Gene- A. Kitchell, searched all the private storm brought rah Brown—who is win up here with Admiral At least one decisive measure has of late been taken for the improvement of Ba'Alava. Colonel Harding has achieved what his predecessors never attempted— he has abolished the abominations of the Turkish hospitals, and compelled oar diseased and dirty pro tiges to establish their hospitals in wooden houses, which have been constructed for them on the hills. The pestholes in which these miserable Turks were laid up to die are doomed to destruction, and all the houses which the former commandants very unwisely gave up to the hospital service of the Turks, are to be pulled down, with a view of eradicating the infection which is ingrained in each piece of timber, and which steams up from the gory pools in the yard. This is certainly a step in the nght direction. But it is to be hoped that Colonel Harding will not atop there. The burials in Balaklava valley and on the mountain side mast cease. It is bad enough that there are already above 5,000 corpses of Christians and Turks buried in this narrow valley. Public privies must be built, and measures be taken to keep them in order. At present the whole of Balaklava is one vast privy for the thousands that daily come to the depot. The mangy and ownerless dogs and hors at run about —displaying their starvation and Magatiog their diseases—must be put out of the way somehow. Sen tries must be placed over the few wells that remain to prevent the Turks from washing their soiled clothes in the water which others are to drink ; walls must be built round the wells to prevent the rains flooding them with the liquefied abominations that cover the ground. In short, immediate and energetic measures must be taken to temper the pestilence which is cer tain to break out during the first weeks of warm weather. Cannot the Board of Health spare us a plenipotentiary to undertake the sanitary reform of Balaklava ? A little timely precaution would save many lives and prevent a deal of misery. Let the government look to it in time. The sanitary measures, which would be all in all in February and March, will be of little avail in April and May. And I predict that unites great improvements take plans soon, our own indifference and carelessness will effect what the Russians never could do. It will drive es out of Balaklava, or bury us under the mountains of abominations which we have heaped up in this place. The mismanagement of the newspaper department of the Poet-office is as scandalous as ever, and all because the officers in charge are still in want of responsible sorters. I mean to publish and republish that grievance until it is remedied. Houston btewart from Malta, and is expected daily— and General Boequet, will take their division. %mast General Liprandi, while Omer Pacha and the French troops with him will act on the north. I doubt if this is not all surmise. Our men are not in a fit state for marching yet. Good clothing, good food, and a Imonth's fine weather, may repair munch of the mischief that has been done by previous neglect and mis management, and may restore to us some of the inva lids we have sent away, and who are now scattered over the Mediterranean and &gun seas, and on the shores of the Bosphorus. The ordinary returns given of our " strength" in the field, as it I. called, are very deceptive. I have just heard that the officers are to pay for the winter clothing sent from England 7 guineas for fur coat, 4 guineas for long boots, &c. I can hardly believe it, yet my authority is the Quartermaster of the 7th Fusiliers. I know I shall not get them at that rate. The season is too far advanced, and do with what I have already been using. (11101 t TIN FRANCE. //DINT OP TEN DAILY 3111111.) PARIS, TILOPSDAY EVENING. The Emperor left yesterday for St. Omer. He arrived safely at half-past seven last night, and this substantially is all that is yet known in Paris con cerning his journey. Up to half-past three this afternoon, no one, not even the Empress, had received intelligence of any speech or manifesto. His Majesty is expected to return to Paris to-morrow. There are people about the court who say now that after all he will not go to the Crimea. I have been told con fidently that the Prince Napoleon has been heard to say that he has changed his mind in consequence of the serious state of affairs at Berlin, but that the preparations for the journey ge on, in order not to discourage the army. Notwith standing these rumours, I still believe in the voyage. There are, no doubt, generally two kinds of truth current at the Tuileries, the official truth of the hour and the real truth (la verde vrqie), but at the present moment I think the Prince Napoleon is quite as little likely to know the latter for certain u anybody else. It seems to me most unlikely that the Emperor would have allowed the public to understand thoroughly tl at he intended to go, and then have it said that any ministers or foreign powers had made him change his purpose. M. de Wedel left Paris for Berlin last night, to ask, as it is said, for fresh instructions. _ _ At Bordeaux, on Feb. 24, eighteen individuals of the working class, who met at a dinner to celebrate the anniversary of the revolution of 1848, were found out by the police in the midst of their festival, and were all •ed, together with the landlord of the coffee-house where they were dining. At the Bourse the Rente, after opening at yester day's price, dropped to 66fr. 20c., closing with a fall of 20c. The Rouen railway fell 15fr. In the other lines there was no sensible change. INDIA AND CHINA. half-year, Oa the • low. _ eountriso There before U changed few days In or mutt will take piece mend taken Tbei Exciter:, onr lest. 7 credits bay Document have par' opium Foam The " The ture the hourly. " Trade ing the been American to be Canton. Mal. Ye, by the We are in receipt of our despatches from India and China, by the Overland Mail. The dates of these advice. are (as stated yesterday in our tele graphic summary) Calcutta, Jan. 22 ; Bombay, Jan. 31; Shanghai, Jan. 1; Canton, Jan. 13; Hong Kong, Jan. 11 The Bombay Times, reporting on the events of the fortnight, says: . . (Saturday: Mr. H. supporwd M.P HI",. Ayrton, Hawkey. ward, 7 Bayl, The intelligenco for the put ten days is unim portant. The Burmese embassy arrived at Rangoon on the 28th December, and the miserable manner in which they were received in their own country con trasted strikingly with the magnificence with which they had been welcomed at Calcutta. In the account prepared for the information of their sovereign, they are said to have omitted the reply of the Governor- General ; their excuse being that they dared not communicate to the " golden foot" the peremptory refusal of the cession of the conquered provinces, which they were instructed to request. fhe 46th Native Infantry reached Rangoon from Madras by steamer on the Bth of January. One wing proceeds to Prome, and thence to Poungday and Taphoon ; the head-quarters to Henzadah. Tranquillity is con sidered so completely established in Burmah that officers on the staff have been permitted to quit their regiments and rejoiu their appointments. We have been engaged on an expedition to put down piracy in the Persian Gulf. The Chief of Amaieer had since 1831 been constantly engaged in outrage— two vessels had of late been captured and plun dered by him, a portion of the crews murdered, the rest sold into slavery. In October last the Hon. Company's sloop of war Falkland proceeded to Bushire to join the Clive and Constance under the command of Commodore Robinson. The brig Tigris having been despatched to demand satis faction, was followed by the vessels just named. The expedition was completely successful. An expedi tion is about to proceed next week from Peshawar into the Meeranzaie Valley, a long, narrow, deep defile parallel to the Kohat Valley, and through which the principal trade to Cabul used to be conducted. Nominally a portion of the Punjaub, it became British territory in 1849, but the inhabitants of it in reality never owned a muter, and have lived the lives of free-robbers and freebooters. Now that our hands are at leisure, it has been resolved to bring them into subjection. The tidings of the abolition of Haileybury have occasioned universal gratification. The seminary had not only outlived the exigencies which had called it into existence, but its mechanism was unsuited to , the age. The concession of the railway guarantee by the Court of Directors over 3,000,0001. of additional capital, comprising that required for a railway in &nide, will probably be the means of transferring the balance of a quarter of a million sterling, which the country has hitherto cost, from the debtor to the creditor side of the account. The last mail brought the tidings of the demise at Cairo, on his way home, of Mr. Goldsmid, secretary to the Bombay government in the revenue department. His appointment will not be tilled up, but the de partment over which he presided will be entrusted to a board or commission. The tree producing gotta percha is said to have been discovered in the Madras Presidency,and is sup posed to abound in many parts of India. The 10th Hussars, with their horses, nearly 400 strong, have just quitted the Presidency for Saez , and will proba bly be at the scene of action by April, in about the same time as they would have reached by the Cape, and at about one-fourth the charge. Large detachments of infantry . and cavalry are under orders to follow them, under circumstances still more adverse to expedition and economy. There are at present 27,000 Queen's troops in India, or 7,000 more than the act of parliament allows; with peace j so universal as it is at present, and prospects of tran quillity so favourable,lo,ooo or 12,000 might be spared without iosonvenience. The electric telegraph opens to-morrow for the general us of the public, communication betwixt Bombrsy, Lahore, Agra, Calcutta, and Madras being now 'completed. The Governor-General and the governors of Bom bay and Madras are at their respective presidencies. IThe Patriotic Fund continues to be liberally sap anrrad throughout India ; the subscriptions at Bom amount to about 8,0001. Trade still continues , and the tightness in the money market remains under Burnell, office, ,- return k represt aiertions "'out lutioß. course acessi.ma mercial country, Kull that the present. Russell , meeting, satisfied MILITARY INTIILLIGENCE. Casualties by death idece_the doyen-art...of the mail on the _ 16th of Januiry, 1866. Her Majesty's Troope.—Captain D. 0. Brien, 86th Peek at Bombay, on 22nd Wt. Madru.--Captais (Brevet Lieutenant Colonel) ppm Augustu Hornby, 2nd European Light Infantry, Dopes? Dee. S Jaag• Advocate Generl, at Visegapatans, op Ensign H. B. Podenore, 4th Regiment Native Infantry, of cholera, at Attaootapoor, on the Slat December., Captlin G. W. N. Dunlop, 4th Regiment Native Initiate% at fiutti monglont, on the 6th January. BengaL—Litutepant Birch, 60th Reginterlt Native In fantry, at Delhi, on the 16th January. COMMERCIAL INV,' ---- 130113L1, JAY. 31. We have little change to report on the 14Oniiusaiiiet. The Precursor, which arrived here from Calcutta two deps atter the despatch et oat W I brought mad eleven some Sink . two per look for therefore, , Securities ',mmsrcial gagemerits linseed, 'latter 1 taken r Sr. aotniaal the tame, . INDIO' plane: Cam on Calcutta, premium. Amoy, - Manilla, Shansi drafts e Amoy. Turkey, Sheughee, Canton.— Shangbae. for Bilk. "No. Aberdeen' responeif boles were crow". to pieces, . entrusted t importance -4 cirdisod John he - Mr.. " That it ston, in as ministration great seat to inevitable, coarse, ' did t Lard been ...—__ ,overnment, war in baliovad. London' melting, e.._ weskit indeed geetnd,and i war have net management that - 4 lc mo o rcia t liis a lsa k ha d v eciar e :Je di o f r oe t h sale . discount psst 3 rained their divide n n tli d 8 to lakhs of specie, which relieved our market to 1 I extent ; but as the Bank of Bengal and the t e r r a ce:sc.. over existing rates here, we cannot f continuance of such shipments, and money will efore,.we think, remain scarce for some time to come orates still continue exteseively dull of sale Th e . year, at the rate of five per cent. per annu m . be whole the market for import remains much inth i dell state; the ohm of geode genteel may be e quoted No demand as yet exists from the 7 rot consuming dries in the interior. A, J 22. ore was considerable excitement in CALCU our T e x p or t N. market re the arrival of the Bentinck, but it has I ears since ged to a state of dulness, and the transactions the last days have been rather of • limited nature. our import market we are still without any improve- 1. We have reason to believe that some improvement fake place shortly in our market for British cotton . goods In metal, we have not much doing; the dee- d for copper is very limited, and iron is occasionally n at previous quotations. to money market is growing tighter. LCMANGE.—Considerable transactions are reported sines last. Bank bills at six months' sight and first ohms its have ranged from 2s. Oti. to 21. Old. per rupee. anent bills are quoted at 2e. old. On Citina the rates • partially declined, and bills at 60 days' sight against m have been disposed of at Rs. 227 per 100 do!". SEIGIFES.—Before the arrival of the Bensinck, large ,gements were made at increased rates for rice and ied, as high as 81. per ten having been paid for the ✓ to London; but subsequently the rates have n • downward tendency, though for many articles they seminal at present. For Mauritius the rates continue ame, with • small demand fur tonnage. innao.—Since our last a few public sales have taken e: little animation in the market. CHINA. • 'he Overland Friend of China, of Jan. 15, says : he civil war rages as fiercely as ever, acd the cap. . 1 ) of Canton by the rebels, and general massacre of officials of the old dynasty, are events looked for rly. Trade at Canton is almost entirely stopped. Hut- 1 • I : • i •,: the last five weeks not a cheat of new tea has a brought into the market. i 1 The rebel chief has notified the British and erican naval commanders-in-chief that Canton is / • a considered as in a state of blockade." ' COMMERCIAL. I EXCIIANGB AND BULLION. anton, Jan. 12.—0 n London, 4.81; on Bombay, Rs. 230; Calcutta, Rs. 231; Ciotti* uollars, 30 per cent. alum. .moy, Dec. 28.—0 n Canton, 2 per cent. discount; on 1 mina, 9 per ceni. discount. hanghae, Dec. 30 —On London, 6.7; on India, Re. 330; its on Canton, 271 to 28 discount. Orivie. !Anton. Jan. 12.—Patna, 3461 dole.; Benares, 330 dole • t Iva, 445 dole.; Turkey, 380 dole. • * tmoy, Dec. 28.—Patna, 380 dole.; Renato, 390 dile • rkey, 400 dole. • . ;banshee, Dec. 30.—Malway. 348 dots. ; I",tute, 263 doll • FRISIOMIS AND TONNAGE. ! , :anton.—To London, nomin•tl, 61. for tea. ihanghatn—To London, 6/. 10.. for tea ; 61. to 6/. 104 silk. 'I I , REPRESENTATION OF TILE CITY OF LONDON. ---o— • THE WAR AND THE MINISTRY. . 1 Yesterday afternoon a general meeting, convened the Liberal Registration Association, was held, at the I orlon T , in reference to the approaching election for City of London, which will take place to-morrow turday). dr. H. J. PRESCOTT was called to the chair, and was ported by Mr. S. Oregson, M.P., Mr. T. Hankey, jou., il P., Mr.T.A. Mitchell, M.P., Baron de Rothschild, M.P., W. A. Wilkinson, M.P., Mr. W. Williams, M.P., Mr. ' Prendergast, Q.C., Mr. R. W. Crawford, Mr. W. J. • , if, Mr. John Dillon, Mr. Thomas Christy, Mr. Acton S. rton, Mr. George Walter, Mr. J. Montefiare, Mr. J. A. nkey, Mr. W. Kirk, Mr. Francis Bewitch, Mr. M. Ba- rd, Mr. Samuel Morley, Mr. Douala Nicoll, Mr A. J. ylee, Mr. W. 11. Ashurat, and other gentlemen. • the CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceeding', said that present were acquainted with the circumstances der which the meeting had been called. Lord John mull, who had been for some little time out of ice, had accepted an appointment in Lord Palmerston's ministration, and was consequently under the necessity appealing t his constituents for re-election. It was for e electors to determine whether they would again give to e noble lord their support. If he (the chairman) might allowed tot :press an opinion, he would say that it was vital importance to the interests of this great country, in present critical position, that Lord John Ru-sell should returned to parliament without opposition. (A voice, No.") The noble lord held an appointment in Lord berdeen's government, in virtue of which he assumed the .. sponsible post of leader of the House of Commons, but dog dissatisfied with the manner in which his colleagues ,I ire conducting the war, he retired from the service ut the own. Since that time the Aberdeen ministry had Wien pieces, and the new premier had, as one of nis first acts, trusted to Lord John Russell a mission of most serious 'i Iportance—a mission involving the fate of the whole raised world, the lives and happiness of millions. (Hear, '1 • • sr.) If tbu electors were on this occasion to reject Lord .his Russell, it would be fetal to the negotiations m which was engaged, while it would completely destroy the lidence of Lord Palmerston's government in the House . , Commons. Mr. It. W. CRAWFORD moved the following resolution: : That it is the opinion of this meeting that Lord Palmer- on, is undertaking the responsibility of forming an ail- inistration and carrying on the government in the present reumetances of the country, is entitled to the confidence of e nation, and this meeting pledges itself to support the turn of Lord John Russell, a member of his cabinet, as presentative for the City of London, and to use its best Lotions for that purpose." He apprehended that there mild be very little difference amongst the liberal electors I I ' the City of Loudon on the point. contained in the reser- Aion. Whatever he (Mr. Crawford) might think of the ours° which Lord Joho Russell had on many recent suions taken in parliament in reference to those cono ercial interests with which the citizens of London were I I , . intimately bound up, the return of Lord John Russell for I . re City of London at the present juncture was • political ,1 ecessity. The liberal party were bound on this *cession .1 o sink all minor differences, to dismiss from their minds insiderations to which, at another time, they might attach reat importance, because if Lord John Russell lost his • . . sat the failure of Lord PAmerston's government would be . meltable, and the Earl of Derby would, as • matter of . . oars, he lolled upon to administer the affairs of this . . ountry. (Hear, hear.) It, on the contrary, Lord John il 1 i Lumen were aiumphautly returned, it would clearly show eat Lord Palmerson's government had the 00tifidenhe of be meat enlightened, and the most influential, censutuency . 1 a the British empire. (Cheers.) Mr. W. PUROCOTT, in seconding the revolution, raid he id not wish by tot course to express his full approval of 11 that Lord John Russell had done in conaezion with ,rd Aberdeen's administration ; but se the Goble lord had een called upon to fill an important position in the present / I o vernment, he thought the electors would net be doi n g ight if they rejected him. . (Hear, hear). 1 C. BATMAN did not thi nk it would DO prudent is Lila resent state of the country to refuse to re-elect Lord John (lessen ; bat be thought it would be a crying shame it that muting, a portion of the great constituency, should be 'Willed to express an opinion that Lord John Rusted ought , obe re-slatted, and 'to say nothing about the disastrous 1 Car in which the country was engaged. (Low cheers.) He oalieved that it was the imperative duty of the citizens of London, to express, through Lord John Russell, if he should main be their repeesentattee, their extreme discontent with the moaner in which the war in the Crimea had hese londected. That the citizens of London, and at such a meeting, should utter Do word of warning or of sympathy would indeed be strange. It would be a sad exhibition if the citizens of a tree and mighty city—citizens so poworal, so enlightened, so independent of extraneous i influence, should pus such a resolution as had been sug- gested, and in the midst of a disa strous and mismanaged war have nothing to say upon the miseries which that mu- management had caused. (Hear. hear.) Ile did not sa y that under any circumstances he would oppose Lord John Russell, for he should be sorry t o damage a Set of ministers and who had who had a most di ffi cult teak to per form, if trial • but they Ben t • appealed to the country for a fair without . se Mg to Lord John Russell back to parliament y a : j bout the war, it would be imply ing him a tingle word • n) culd not fo • mo- , confidence in which he (tdr. Batema heoresoiutindri f the mot participeta• lie wou ld puppet t t de to be added to it:—" That meeting would allow time words here assembled cannot, the electors of the City of London bat a most map atm expression .1 their • however, but utter th e o( the war has hitherto been opinion, that the conduct of carelessness and inapti. •. characterised by an amount h disgraceful to t • na tio n , so exalted in I tuffs perfectly and while ready again to .1 and intelligence; . wealth, powe r, bite lord confide the interests of this great city to the no . , Mre and e xact from him, as the representat ive of 1 would reett pe se supplies, and who t ave so Mose who 1/ 14 ` w q "" n. of our noble • a i ms why with the de le su fferings edon with army In the ffiellswa, that sta r. sa astestia mdso l ve rSamila n Ivety seaput to the e 0t.'.... .1 —. rib's Xr. Rriniewaw reale ta endmete. Xt. A. 8. •Alwrosi • le tuition to the noble lord, who was thi • .. ~ . ' '• " Om principle that - ' • ' -Aunts of the last the war had ben • , _ •. • MS few weeks had • adt , 'ar. ..4 11494,10111elaltis lordship had . • rittyllting their duty take an a n i o n a mmeltien „ q t .:l: . .. . promotes do promising Follies ; for committee of the noble Isrd • • '.f C . :4 k ' ' I f • di. . - • .... at circumstance in {wiry avid* they re • - • •' •thdrawal from the go- 1 1 reedy was tole attributed their wi _ 444 resumat lie thought the eitittnt HA ht to supra 1 jigs, Mei mAi