The Express. — London, England, 1855-02-12 00:00:00

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The Duke of Genoa expired lut night.• • Ftrdiaand, Duke of Genoa, was the second eon of the late King Charlie Albert, and only brather of the' present Sovereign of Piedmont. He was born Nov. 15, 18r, and married, four years ago, to the daughter of Prince John, now King, of Sezony. The prevent situation of King Victor Immanuel is one to call f,..r universal sympathy. Within a few week., and almoet in tte set of g ivin g an example of active magnanimity to the king" of the ocatinent, by taking par in the Earortan war, be has wen his mother, his wife, and now his brother fall at his side. THE W.R. VARNA, FIB. 4. Thirty thousand Ottoman troops hare landed st Eagatoria. Others an on their march for this port, Mil will be embarked for Eapatoria as they arrive. as w event hum-caned before Sebas:oiol.—Daily SIM The French government has received rews from Varna to the 6th. Omer Pacha had left for Bourges, to inspect the cavalry and magazines. After that inspection he will embark definitively fcr Eupatoria. —Dully Newt. CONSILNTINOFLE, FED. 1. Twa-thirds of the Turkish army have d.oembarked at Eupatoria. The Russians are encamped partly Jo the villages of Alma and Be :beck, and partly at Fienpheropol acd the environs. General Ulrich, with the Guard., est off for the Crimea on the 30th January. The Egyptian reinforce meats have arrived from Alexandria in the Tagus. During the night the artillery of Sebastopol fires Incessantly. The allies reply during the day by the timilleurs, who kill a number of the Russian artillery men. One thousand sick of the English army disembarked on the 31st at Constantinople. General Osten-Sacken asked for an interview with General Canrobert. The staff of the two generals remained at a distance during the interview. The Divan has communicated to the ambassadors of the Allied Powers several propoeitions for reform in the civil service.—Daily News. Satnrilay'd Von tour con'ains the following : The Minister of the Marine and the Colonies has received from V.ce•Admiral Brad the following telegraphic despatch: . _ " Mottebello, Jan. 30, 1855. Kamiesch Harbour. The General-in-Chief demands of me 30 fresh ship guns, and 15,000 charges, in addition to the 32,000 already required. " The Duperre has just anchored in the harbour of Kamiesch ; she brings 930 military passengers, 32 hats, 1,000 bombs, and 320 barrels of powder. " The Panama brings 160 passengers, and army stores (camp furniture and tools)." (BY SYBIIMUNB •ND sarnsu Int.) MARSEILLES, Sumwr. By the Valetta, arrived this morning, we learn that the telegraph had announced the arrival of the first detachment of the 10th Hussars at Suez, from India. —Da ily News. The Moniteur of Saturday said : " The 10th Regi ment of her Britannic Majesty, which is on its way from India, and will proceed to the seat of war, is expected at Suez on the licith of Feb. This regiment has a strength of 650 men, and the same number of horoev. It will be maintained at the charge of the government of the Viceroy during i:s passage through Egypt." Alv ices from Vienna state that according to intel ligence received there the head-quarters of Prince Gortchakoff are to be removed from Kischeneff to Odessa. The Russian division posted near Eupatoria has been forced to retire from the neighbourhood for want of water. Since the frosty weather has set in there has been great want of water at Perekop, but there are abundant supplies of provisions.—Dally New!. ST. PETERSBURG, FIB. 3. 11. e Journal d. St. Peters&ourg contains an address by the Czar to the Hetman of the Dan Cossacks, expressing his confidence that they will fight oours;sonsly for the church, the throne, and the conn•ry. EGYPT. ny SVDMARINZ ♦SD ZOKOPIMII rmacasrii.) ALIXANDRIA, FEL 6. T:ie Viceroy of Egypt hu abolished Customs duties except at Suez.—Daily News. DENMARK. (rty INTIRWATIONAL COMPANT.B COPENHAGEN, SMIDAY. 'l. Volksthing has resolved itself into a committee, to inquire into the abases committed by the late ministers, in order tr give them an opportunity of explaining their conduct.—Daily Veers. CP.A.COw, FEB. 2.—General Schlick, commander of the fourtb army eon* in °allies, arrived here ye.terdar and to-day passed U., troops in review. The supplies col , heeled for the army ere immense. The little town of Dukla, in one of the Wiles of the Karpathiss Mountains, is one of the principal depots—en its bower, in fact, have been turani into corn stores. ARISTOCRATIC STATESMANSHIP. --•-- Ms sew Cabinet is complete; aniseed, s few subordinate places in the Ministry remain to be filled up. Lord PALMERSTON'S constiSentskeving, very properly, disposed with his appearenessi the hust ings at Evert" he can proceed to business at once. His Clovernemest will be jsdged of by he works; the people will wait to see what it does blare giving or withholding their confidence. Lord PALMUISTON, however, may rest seared that if be parses the bold and ; honourable coarse which is required to re-place this country es the eminence from which the cowardice and imbecility of the Prime Minister who preceded him appears temporarily to have de pressed it, the people will support him. But, before the late Ministerial break up and re construction is allowed to pass into the region of history, there is as of its features that requires to be commented on. The constitutional conduct of the QUEEN on the °pommies has been made the subject of panenrio ; and we would be as emphatic in its praises as any, but that it does not take us by ear. prise. It is exactly what all her MAJESTY'S antece dents led us to expect. First, the QUEEN sent for Lord DERBY because his party made a majority of the majority ; next, she sent for Lord JOHN RUSSELL because his *session from the late Government was _ _ _ one main cause of its breaking up ; and lastly, she sent for Lord PALMERSTON, the champion of the defeated Cabinet, because the other two political leaders had found themselves unable to construct a Ooveroment. So far good; bat how comes it that the real victor— Mr. ROEBUCK, whose triumphant motion gave the deathblow to the late Ca - binet7waa never eon- suited ? We shall be told that Mr. ROEBUCK'S unfor tunate state of health placed him out of the question ; but would Mr., ROEBUCK bees been sent for, °vet though he had been.o hale and robust u OLD Pena was at his age? We mean no imputation against her MAJESTY for the omission. Had she had one counsellor capable of advising her to take such a step, we feel confident her true British heart would have prompted her to act upon his suggestions. But she is surrounded by a jealous and narrow-minded caste, who seek to interpose themselves as a hedge between her and the great body of the people. We republish from last Saturday's Spectator a very ramarkahle letter from a French nobleman of old family, which is well worthy the attention of this class of courtly politicians. "R— told me the other day," says the letter writer," that the aristocracy had never been stronger in England than they are now ; fur that they had never poured out their blood more freely. Bat I must remark that it is not altogether by military services that our aristo cracy can maintain itself; otherwise ours would not be levelled with the dust as it actually is; foe who were ever more prodigal of their lives than the French gentilshonnnes, of all grades, the leaser as well as the greater? My grandfather and my granduncle both met their death on the field of battle; their father and their grandfather experienced the same fate ; and there is hardly a family in the neighbour hood of whom as much cannot be said. Yet there remains not a trace of their power. The last cannon I that was mounted on the old baronial chateau of T— in my neighbourhood, now half-buried in the earth, serves as a post to tie up cattle; while the chateau itself is degraded to a farm house. I will conduct R— thither when he comes to see me : it will show him what mud be the fate of an aristocracy which though they know how to die, do not know how to govern." The truth is, that the English aristocracy has grown more ooafident in its strength exactly in pro portion as its real strength has decayed. In propor tion as it has kept aloof from the people its power has departed from it, but in its isolation it has no means of ascertaining the fact. When the old Cava lier nobles looked down upon the House of BEDFORD because its fortunes were founded on grants of church lands, and augmented by successful specula tions in draioing the fens, that house was able to shake a dynasty. When men were yet alive whose fathers could remember the first CAVENDISH who was ennobled, the House of DEVONSHIRE was as power ful as the House of BEDFORD. What is now the influence of either house, compared with what it was in 16S8? And yet the individual influence of each has diminished less than the collective influence of their order. The English aristocracy over-rate their power, as the sick man whose spirits are raised by the stimulus of fever imagines himself capable of 1 efforts far beyond his strength. A kind of dawning consciousness of this die agreeable truth may be detected in the special pleadings that we hear put forth in vindication of exclusive aristocratic rule. We are told, for example, to look to America, and see how democratic institu tions necessarily produce mediocrity in the statesmen of a country. We suspect Englishmen would have reason to be glad if mediocrity were the worst that could be laid to the charge of the imbeciles who have so shamefully mismanaged the war. But how stands the case? We have ourselves more than one* expressed regret that the Women- TONS, JEFFEESONS, and MONROES, of the early his tory of the Republic, should have been succeeded by such vastly inferior statesmen as the TAYLORS and PIERCES. Still it remains a truth—a most mortify ing truth for Englishmen—that in all the diplomatic contests we have of late years had with our cousins across the Atlantic, their mediocre statesmen have got the better of ours. Again we are told that statesmanship, like every thing else, is a trade that requires to be learnt early ; that s Duke who gets into office at twenty-five must, ex necessitate, be a more available Minister than a Commoner who has no chance of such pro mo'ion till he is put fifty. There is a fallacy lurking underneath this statement. The first I Lord 3IALSIESBURY and the late Lord METCALFE were, perhaps, all the abler in their profession for having commenced early in life. But the case of neither is exactly parallel to that of a nobleman of high 'rank early inducted into office. Matuassrav and METCALFE had nothing to rely upon bat their own abilities: they felt that they must show them ! selves capable of office, or be thrown aside. But let ' the hypothetical Duke be the greatest gull and fribble of hie age, he will get his work done for him by others, and will, except on extraordinary emergencies, be retained in place. But there is a more radi cal error still in the argument we are combatting. Statesmanship and ability to perform the routine duties of office are two very diftrent things. The titst Lord IlautEsnuxr would have been greater as a statesman if he had not run all his life on the diplomatic rails. His experience was limited to the traditional practice of his profession ; he could not see the change which had taken place in the internal reatiots of society and in the relations of States to each other, and hence it came that his very ability rendered him at times mischievous. The truest statesmen are those who bring to the trade of politics a large and diversified experience of other pursuits. Our wish is to strengthen and uphold—not destroy —"our old nobility." Bnt that can only be by com pelling them to come out of that "Bastille of their ratk " in which they have immured themselves, and gain strength by entering into vigorous competition with others. We have no hope that they will do this of their own accord ; the competition must be forced vac them. The unprivileged classes wit assert •. • . TES EXPRESS, MONDAY wi lk :udy li b e k. s w ot to . jez thr.honoure •of the Stol l they limy mask if they welt tin ft is obit edipil tot ik it ; . The Reform Act Of 1831 put it in power tel assert this skint. but I hitherto thy' Db use of it. We heal occasionally orbs for an eztendon of the popular power Nomad by that Act. and we have net been wanting in emt ealseveurs to support them. Bet until maohextensioe ton be bad we should like to use the powers of the Reform Act we have got fairly put to the test. An opportunity of trying them may be afforded no one can say how soon. The hints respecting a dissolution which have been heard in high places are not mere &Winn fultnex. At the Treasury every nerve is being strained to get its electioneering machinery "into paring."—Daily News. WAR AND COMMERCE.—Mb EXAGGERATIONS. BRIGHTB Makes:as of Commerce in times of excitement naturally become chambers of polities. They we a continuation, in a somewhat novel form, of the old combinations of different trades into guilds, and of different professions into convocations and inns, to promote the special objects of particular clues% without any regard to the welfare of the whole com munity. They are all intended to procure an extra share of power for the combining bodies—a share greater than belongs to them as portions of the general constituencies; and so enable them to in- Atones the executive government and the legislatius to their own ends, or to lay down rules for the eon. duct of business, the regulation of worship, or the promotion of learning. They are subsidiary to a national system of representation, and as this ap proaches to perfection, they dwindle away like the old guilds, or become inoperative and obsolete. Chambers of Commerce—being amongst the newest of these inventions, and the offspring of very influen tial and increasing classes—have notyet excited much attention, or made themselves obnoxious to general censure. If, however, they are to be made the arena of political harangues or party disputes, they will soon obtain an unenviable notoriety, and landowners may find it necessary to consolidate their power in chambers of agriculture, and labourers their power in ambers of industry, and the nation may again besplit into new and conflicting interest., in opposition to the general progress towards amalgamation, and in direct eontradiction to the promotion of the common interest by one uniform system of repreeentation for all classes- Action and re-action are equal in morals as in me chanic e, and if politicians make'use of Chambers of Gunmen. to serve political objects, they will either bring Chambers of Commerce into , disrepute, or call into existence antagonist and resisting powers. Mr. Behan did not, therefore, consult the interests of his commercial constituents in making a long political speech in the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on Thursday; nor did the Chamber consult its own stability or influence in permitting and cheering his exaggerated and inflammatory harangue. He avowed that he did not often attend the board of which he is ex oleic , a member ; but he thought himself at liberty, on a motion being made to return thanks to the directors, to deliver a long speech against taxes, about the price of corn, the sufferings of the poor, the consequences of the war, and " the insanity or dishonesty of some public writers" who do not share his exaggerated views of these consequences. We should not think it of much importance to correct what he said, were it not that we may at the same time dissipate the errors of some less melons and leas extravagant-minded men. Smitten suddenly by a coincidence between the total value of the cotton manufactured in the country, se stated by the calm and equitably minded Chairman, sod the amount of our ordinary taxation, the hon. member for Manchester averred that it would require the whole lalsbur of double the number of all the persons employed in any way in the cotton interest of this country—the value of whose labour he assumed to be 27,000,0001. a year—to provide the sum collected by our orrery taxation. It is not incorrect, he thinks, to say that ft would require three times the whole of this labour to producer as much as will actually be expended this year out of the public taxes sad bloom. by the Government. Now, though it be taus that the Government levies, as he says, about 84 5 1180,0001. of ordinary taxation, or more, it is not Me that this whole sum is taken from the people. Abut 28,000,0001. of the 64,000,0001. are appro- Naiad to pay the interest of the debt, sad, taken Am as people by the baud of the taxgatherer, are banded bask to the people by the hand of the Bak of England, in the shape of dividends, this sum being a mere re-distribution of so much si the annual produce of the national industry, through the instrumentality of Government, amongst various classes—the dividends swelling the in comes of bankers, merchants, manufacturers, capi talists, and anonitants of nearly every description. It diminishes the general wealth of the community only by the restraints and cost of levying the taxes. The 28,000,0001., though appropriated by the Govern ment, is not taken from the people; it is nearly a fixed sum, and will not necessarily be increased by the war. Mr. BRIGHT, however, states that the national expenditure this year will probably be three times 27,000,0001, or 81,000,0001. According to him, therefore, the extra expense of the war will be 27,000,0001. in the year. He means,we suppose, the financial year, ending with March. What may happen before next December we cannot foresee, any more than Mr. Bain= ; but, we can see well enough that the whole expenditure of the financial year 1854 5 including the extra estimates for 3,000,0001., lately laid on the table of the House of Commons—and including, say, 8,000,0001. of Exchequer Bonds-- will be less than 70,000,0001., or at least 11,000,0001. less than Mr. BRIGHT'S estimate. In fast, deducting from the national expenditure the 28,000,0001., that are handed back to the people, and the exaggeration of the expense of the war, Mr. BRIGHT was in error to the extent of fully one-third when he said that "the absorption by the Government of the products of industry would be equal to three times the value of the whole of the labour required to prolues all the cotton manufactures of the country." Our estimate does not include the consideration of the labour which the expenditure of the taxes em ploys, though Mr. BRIGHT informed us that there are gentlemen who have obtained Government con tracts, and that the demands of the Government had added to the flannel trade of Rochdale—which make Mr. BRIGHT'S exaggeration of the effects of the war on the employment of labour and the production of pauperism all the more glaring. The hen. member, adverting to the high, price of bed as worthy of the consideration of the Chamber, iseamed that the consumption of food in this country is 30,000,000 qrs.; but he meant exclusively wheat, for be immediately afterwards estimated its cost—at the peewit price of wheat, 31. 10.. per qr.--et 103,000,0001. The estimate of 30,000,000 qrs. of wheat as the con sumption of the people of this country is a gross exaggeration. The largest quantity ever returned in the Gazette as sold in all our markets—which em braces the whole supply of the town population and much ef the agricultural population,from the home growth b anderldsh is certainly more than thehalf of the 'whole annual consumption of home-grown rodeos — was 6,880,14bema- i 1846 and Me largest quantity of PRBRUARY 12, 1855: Vat tad inward was 6,101500 qrs., la 1863. Now, if we add these extreme quail &lief different years together, doubling the Seat quantity, we shall still be below 20,000,000 quarters of wheat as our usual consumption. The meet dis creet, indeed, of modern statiaticians have put it down in Great Britain (Ireland may be left out of tbe question) at between 14,000,000 quarters and 18,000,000 quarters. Not one of them on whom any reliant* can be plead goes beyond the latter and larger quantity. Aga", then, Mr. Bomar is guilty, in his estimate of the quantity of wheat consumed, of an exaggeration equivalent to a full third. We gather from the gist of his observations that, by saying if the imports had been free the price of wheat now would have been 60s. per qr., instead of 705.," he means that the war has stopped the import, ; for, except in so far as the war and our le. duty have operated, our imports of wheat have been perfectly free. To the war, therefore, exclusively, he attributes a rise in the prim of wheat of 20s. per quarter. But he builds the whole of his argument on the hearsay. and gatherings of private information published by the Messrs. Surma, and ignores the contradiction of them contained in the blue book recently placed in his possession as a member of parliament. We have on two occasions pointed out the fallacies of the Messrs. BTURGE, on which the hon. member built all his ar guments; and though we can offer no conjecture as to what would have been the price of wheat had the nation been at peace with Russia, we are con fi dent I that a calculation founded on these fallacies must be erroneous, and are not therefore surprised that they lead Mr. BRIGHT to adopt the astounding and absurd exaggerations that bat for the war every family would have saved 51., and the nation would have saved 30,000,0001. in the oat of wheat ; that it might have had 42,000,000 quarters to consume; and that, instead of the present scarcity, there would have been an abundance of the most paha character. With the most deficient harvest—as in 1863 — and with the supplies from other countries wholly unimpeded, with the Russian ports all open to us, we have never imported more than 6,235,860 qrs. of wheat and flour in any one year; end yet Mr . Bain= informed the Manchester Chamber of Corn. mace, in so many words, that but for the war we might now have imported 12,000,000 qrs., and obtained pro- fuse abundance. At present we can import nothing from Franoe, even with wheat at 725.; and this high price is sufficient only to bring the merest driblets from the United States. Since last September there have come only 79,425 barrels of flour and 191,727 bushels of wheat from that country to this, against 1,052,503 barrels of the former and 4,431,910 bushels of the latter in the same period last year. America, in fact, suffers from a failure in her wheat crops, and all the countries which relied on her are this year alike deprived of supplies from her. All Europe is short of wheat, from excessive consumption and deficient harvests. The little additional supplies other countries might have got from Ruda more than they have got—for the supplies thence have not been, as Messrs. Binurr and Swann infer, wholly stopped—would undoubtedly have diminished the pressure; but to infer that the war has cut off ou r supply of wheat to the extent of 12,000,000 quarters, as Mr. BRIGHT implies, or 6,000,000 quarters, as the Messrs. Sruaoa imply, is one of the greatest exaggerations we have encountered since we had to rebuke the similar exaggeration of the Times. Ac cording to the circular of Mears. STURGE, we imported, in 1854, 3,468,605 quarters of wheat and 3,739,167 cwts. of flour, against 4,949,314 quarters of wheat and 4,662,898 cwts. of flour in 1853—a diminution in 1854 of 1,480,709 qrs. of wheat and 923,731 cwts. of flour. According to their statements the harvest of 1853 was most deficient, and the har vest of 1P54 the largest ever grown ; it is at the same time certain that all the comparative decline in importation has taken place since the great harvest of 1854 commenced in August, and was entirely the consequence of our having a relative abundance and low prices. It is more even than a gross exaggera tion, therefore, to ascribe our deficient imports to the war—it is altogether an error; and Mr. BRIGHT has made the Chamber 'of Commerce of Manchester the means of sending forth a groin delusion. We have said enough to show the character of his speech, and of the statements which some members of the Chamber applauded ; and we shall only add that he spoke in their presence with some contempt of "human statesmanship or human imposture" when he was discussing the price of bread, but when he contemplated the improvement of the Godavery, and an increased supply of cotton, he invoked the aid of this " human imposture." Oa sundry other occasions— of far more questionable utility than the improvement of the Oodavery—Mr. BRIGHT and his associates have most cordially and very humbly supplicated the aid of the " human imposture, " when it seemed likely to promote sectarian or commercial objects. If Cham bers of Commerce are to be used for such purposes as Mr. BRIGHT puts them to, they will ere long fall in the estimation of rational people to the level of com binations of theorists to procure a redistribution of property, or of landowners to plunder the people by taxing their bread.—Daily News. DEATH OF J. H. VIVIAN, ESQ , MP. This gentleman died at his residence, Singleton, near Swansea, on the evening of Saturday last, in his 72nd year. The deceased was the second son of John Vivian, Esq., of Truro, and brother of the first Lord Vivian (better known as Sir Hussey Vivian), and consequently the uncle of tee present baron. He has represented Swansea and its contributory boroughs, Neath, Aberavon, Kea& and Looghor, sine* their enfranchisement under the Reform Bill in 1832. So popular was the hon. gentleman among the electors, that no serious opposition was ever offered to him, and be bas always been ratomed without a contest. He was the head of the firm of Vivian and Sons, the estensive copper smelters. In politics Mr. Vivian was a moderate liberal. When the Whip were in office be ge nerally voted with the ministry, but went farther than them by supporting the ballot and one or two other measure.. No man," writes a correspondent, " was ever held in higher esteem, for his private virtues, even by those who differed from him in polities. His liberality in the munifi cent support accorded by him to ell the local charities as well as other undertakings, was proverbial throughout the county of Glamorgan. A meeting of the Town Council has been wiled for Monday, with the view of agreeing to an address of condolence to the family." Mr. Hassey Vivian, the deceased gentleman's eldest son, is the M.P. for Truro. The future representative of the borough has, as yet, scarcely been talked of. No can didate has been announced, but it is believed that a requisi tion will be presented to L. L Dillwyn, Esq., whose father L. W. Dillwyo, Exi., of Sketty Hall, formerly represented the county, asking him to come forward. Should that gen tleman, who is a decided liberal, comply, it is probable he will be elected unopposed; if, otherwise, be would secure a large majority. THE OAS COMPANIES OF PARIS.—The municipal corporation of Paris not having consented to accept, on ac count of their insufficiency, the offers made by the united vu companies to lower their prices on having their contract prolonged by the city to 1863, the Emperor has ordered saperimenta to be made at & t winks established' for that purpose on ground belonging to the civil list, in order to ascertain the exact cost at which gas can be supplied. The experiments are 'd on under the direction of an eminent member of the institute. A RELIC OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.—A man . . ----- - named Bahasa Lepage died lut week in the neighbourhood of Berne in his eighty-fifth year. He was cook to Robes. pierre, and under the Reign of Tenor took the nano of Coriolanu. He retired to Switzerland in 1816, end has remained there ever since. befx Court. WINDSOIII, SATs DA ", !as. 10. The dinner party yeeterday included the Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, .the Lady fa Waiting te her royal highness, Lady Caroline Barrington, Buono= de Bps*, the Marquis of Abernorn, and Mr. Gibbs. The band of the Royal Horse Guards played during dinner, and the Qtmaa's privet* bead afterwards. The Princess Almost= of Bane Coburg and the Marquis of Abercorn arrived yesterday afternoon on a visit. The Duke of Cambridge arrived today on a visit to her Majesty. To day being the anniversary of her Majesty's survive, the band of the Royal Horse Guards played several select pieces of mule on the South Terrace, at 7 o'clock this awning. The 'bison sad Prises, secompanied by the Princess Augusta, of flue Coburg, walked in the Hone Park this morning. The (Laser party this day included the Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, the Duke of Cs bridge, the Marquis of Abortions, the Lady in Waiting to the Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, Lady Caroline Barrington, Major•Goneral the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the Hoe. C. B. Phipps, Sir George Couper, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. J. Macdonald, Lient.-Colonel Tyrwhitt, Major Clifton, and Mr. Glover. The following were invited after dinner :—Colonel the Hon. N. and Lady Mary Hood, Colonel and Lady Busily Seymour, the Hon. Mrs. and Miss Phipps, Lady and Miss Cooper, Miss Barrington, and Mr. Gibbs. Tits badges of Kent also joined Oa Royal party after dinner. The band of the 94th Regiment played daring dinner, and the private band after. SUNDAY, FEB. 11. The Queen and Prince, the four elder of the royal family, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic household, attended divine service this morning, in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated. The Duchess of Kent and the Date of Cambridge were also at the service. The Princew Augustus of Base Coburg went, to the catholic chapel at Clewer. A Cabinet Council was held, on Saturday after noon, at the Foreign-office, Downingatreet. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, Sir Charles Wood, Sir William Moles worth, and Viscount Canning. The Council sat three hours. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Samuel Grown, M.P., with the Chairmen of the Bast and; West India, the Lon don, and the St. Katharine Dock Companies, Messrs. John Cattley, Samuel Hibbert, T. W. Cater, W. Gladstone, and H. Browning had an interview with the Ri ght Hon. B. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley, on Saturday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert attended at the Colonial office on Friday evening, and transacted business as the Queen's Principal Secretsry of State for the Colonies. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had a dinner party on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The company consisted of Lord Oventone, Lord A. Hervey, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, Sir J. Johnstone, Sir J. Hen chel, Major• General Lindsay, Mr. Wood, Mr. J. E. Deni son, the Rev. R. W. Browne, Mr. R. M. ?ditties, Mr. Richards, Mr. Weguelin, Mr. Osborne, and Mr. Wil braham. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Sa turday, and hoard a petition for a prolongation of Clark's patent (purifying water). The Lords present were the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Chancel lor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Dean of the Arches Court, and Sir E. Ryan. THE Cot:ave.—lt is now definitively arranged that her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert and the whole of the youthful members of the royal family leave Windsor Castle on Thursday next for Buckingham Palace for the season. The Court will remain in town till the week before Easter and then remove to Osborne for the THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSE# THE DUCHESS OP CAMBIUDOS and Prittoeu Mary have arrived at St. halees Palace, from Cambridge Cottage, Kew, fu the season. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge returns to two to-day from visiting the Queen at Windsor Castle. . _ The Earl of Caledon is rapidly recovering from his recent serious attack of illness. His lordship's health has improved so much during the week that his medical attendants have pronounced their patient out of danger. THE CABINET. (Prom the Spectator.) All the most important points in the reconstruction of the Ministry appear to be now accomplished; but it has only been gradually, since Lord Palmerton accepted the Premiership on Tuesday, that some of the most important ministers have fallen into their places, and it is not even yet certain whether the last touch has been given to the Cabinet. The list stands thus : Lord Palmerton First Lord of the Treasury. Lord Cranwotth Earl Grenville Duke of Argyll Lord Privy Seal. Earl of Clarendon Mr. Sidney Herbert - - Sir George Grey Lord Pawnor' Secretary for War. Mr. Gladstone Sir James Graham First Lord of the Admiralty. Sir William Moluworth Sir Charles Wood J President of the Board of t Control. The Marquis of Lansdowne Without office. Lord Canning _ _ _ _ _ _ Kr. Cardwell f President of the Board of t Trade. Lord Canning does not leave his post, but his having a seat in the Cabinet is new, and it will gin further strength in council. We place the last name where the reader sees it, because, although Mr. Cardwell did not take his seat at the Cabinet yesterday, it has been said, with great pro bability, that be is to be added to the Cabinet. Such an arrangement is desirable. As a man of business, Mr. Card• well would often be useful. A free trade ministry ought to be helped just now, above all times—when free-trade alliance is the grand compensator for war interruptions—by the advice of its chief Trade Minister. And questions of commerce arise directly oat of the relations with allies, the enemy, and neutral.. On every account the Cabinet ought to include Mr. Cardwell. With respect to the Ministers not in the Cabinet, there seems to be some uncertainty. No Chancellor has yet been provided for the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir John Young has been mentioned to succeed Sir Henry Ward as Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islandi, and Lord Elcbo as likely to succeed him in the Irish Secretaryship. Mr- Layard has been mentioned as the newly-created Under- Secretary for War ; but the appointment has not yet been made. It is understood that some considerations have had to be weighed respecting the number of Under.Soere taries in either house; and that Mr. Layard himself did not met the offer with immediate and unconditional ac ceptance. It wee reported last week that Lord Grey had refused to join the government: we have reason to know that this statement was untrue, and that, in fact, Lord Grey had not been invited. It is understood, however, that he will give to the new War Minister all the aid of his experience and special knowledge respecting the administration and otgani. station of the military departments. THE NEW WAS DEPARTMENT.—The two cabinet offices of Secretary of State for War and Secretary at War are now combined, end entrusted to the experienced direc tion of Lord Penmure, who holds both offices, and directs oth departments, until the legislature shall be able to mature a plan for the consolidation of the whole of the military system. In holding those two offices it is scarcely necessary to add that Lord Panmure will receive only the alary of one. The only other appointment decided upon is that of Mr. Frederick Peel, who remove/ from the Under-Secretaryship of the Colonial to that of the War Department. To him will be entrusted the financial bust. mess of the department, which be will conduct in the office in Whitehall lately occupied by Mr. Sidney Herbert. Ha will prepare the estimates for parliament, and answer in the House of Commons for the Wavelike, where the pascal business will be conducted under the able superin: teadence of Mr. Hawes. It is highly complimentary to Mr. Peel that his beiinese habits have slated him out at such a moment for selection is this impontantclaty.—Obenaer. FRENCH OPINIONS OF THE ENOLISR ARMY AND ENGLISH GOVERNMENT. ([rank the Speet•tsr.) The disastrous manifestations of military incapa city In oar war administration have created • strong and not a favonrable impression in France. The cam is pre sented to the French in Ira:lotus ways—through the pub- Hilted reports, the complaints of our press and parliament sea, the avowals of Lord John Russell and some of his oollaagass, the reports of General Canrobert to the Emperor Napoleon, and innumerable private Wain. Surprise le ancoseded by • feeling akin to contempt; and this feeling Is /vicar/ by three who try to revive th• old belies against England as • means of disparaging our ally the Emperor• Esau g oonsideretions, however, are presented in the following extract of a letter from a French gentleman, who is not only distinguished both in the statesmanship am literature of his own country, bat is peculiarly versed its the knowledge of English and Anglo-Saxon constitutional politics. TRANSLATED lIXTRACT. - -- - • " Chateau d , Ow. Febru ary • 6, 1836. . " But to talk of more important topics—or tither of the all-important one, the war. My mind is continually dwell ing with .painful interest on the situation of your brave army; an interest inspired by admiration for the army itself, as well as by the concern which I feel for the bonier and credit of your institutions, now in some danger of fall ing into disrepute through incapable and inexperienced admidistration If you do not succeed in repairing th e mischief, and that quickly, (which indeed seems to 0111 Port to impossible,) England and her government will assuredly come out of this struggle somewhat discredited, whatever may be the ultimate results of the war and of the heroic achievements of your soldiers. " I have a difficulty in believing that this will not hare a coy viderable influence, though one perhaps little foresee', upon the future course of your domestic affairs. I suspect that It will accelerate the pace at which you appear to be departing from the character of aristocratic government, according to the old acceptation of that term. At any rate, it is impossible but that the English most discern the immense advantages which in time of war attend a centralised government; or that they can be long in con tact with an army where every one can and may become an officer, without its producing upon them a serious impres• sion. Your army can hardly avoid undergoing a sort of re volution ; and a revolution in the:constitution of the army will surely not be confined to the army alone. You are the only people of the present day (except perhaps the Russians and they less than you) who are officered exclusively by gentlemen. Yon will discover that an army commanded solely by gentlemen is not necessarily the best army to make war with; it is better:able to fight than to sustain itself before and after the battle. 'Ye have had good reason to know this, under our *ld monarchy. On the other hand, en army commanded by gentlemen has the advantage of being good against revolutions ; while an army of the oppoeite aerie ter either makes revolutions, or suffers them to be made by others. R— told me the other day, that the aristocracy had never been stronger in Eng land than they are now ; for that they had never poured out their blood more freely. But I must re mark, that it is not altogether by military ser vices that an aristocracy can maintain itself ; otherwise ours would not be levelled with the due, as it actually is; for who ever were more predigel of their lives than the French genet/skimmer, of all grades, the lesser as well as the greater ? My grandfather and my granduncle both met their death on the field of battle ; their father and their grandfather experienced the same fate ; and there is hardly a family in the neighbourhood of whom as muc► cannot be said. Yet there remains not a trace of their power. The last cannon which was mounted on the old baronial ch►teau of T—, in my neighbourhood, now half-buried in the earth, serves as a post to tie up cattle; while the chateau litself I. degraded to a farm-house. I will conduct R— thither when he comes to see me : it will show him what must be the fate of an aristocracy who, though theylinow how to die, do not know how to govern. Yours has, till now, done both; and this is the reason why it still holds its ground, although the temper of the age is anything but favourable to its continuance." THE APPROACHING CONFERENCES AT VIENNA.- 1 The Paris correspondent of the Independance Beige seisms. upon the authority of a high diplomatic personage at Vienna, that the conferences are to open in that city on or about Thursday next. THE VOTE ON THE SARDINIAN TREATY.—The numbers voting in the Sardinian Chamber of hepatic", on the adoption of the treaty with Great Britain and France, were-101 for, and 60 against—majority 41. DEATH OF LADY HARRIET ELLIOTT.—This lady, youngest daughter of the Earl of Minto, and sister of Lady John Russell, died en Friday morning, after a protracted lilacs., at the Hotel Maurice, in Paris. SERIOVS ILLNESS OF MISS MARTINEAU.—The Leaderetates that Miss Martineau is so dangerously ill as to leave no hope of her recovery. Her disease is enlargement of the heart. The Right Hon. Sir Jams Graham, Bart., is, we are happy to learn, much better, and should no unfavour able change, which is not auticipated, take place, will be enabled to resume his parliamentary duties next week. On inquiry yesterday at the Admiralty the right hon. baronet was aaid to be going on favourably and able to transact business several hours during the day. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WELLINGTON will remove from their residence in Belgrave•street towards the close of the ensuing month, and take up their establishment for a petraaneuey at Apsley House, which noble mansion has undergone a complete re-embellishment since the deatk of the late illustrious Duke. It is said that the noble Duke and Duchess will give a series of brilliant parties after Easter. Lord Straford de Redcliffe hes given a farewell dinner to Beron Bruck, who 1 Constantinople fer Vienne._ On the 30th ult., the Duke and Duchesa of lira• bent arrived at Corfu, and continued their voyage to Alex andria. The session of the joint diet of the duchies of Coburg and Gotha will be opened on the 13th, by the reigning duke, who left Berlin for his own territories on the 6th inst. Prince Paskiewitch, whose departure from St: Petersburg was announced for the 25th ult., will prolong his stay there, at the express desire of the Emperor. • M. d'Usedom arrived in Paris from Brussels on Thursday morning. Run:lsu Losrt.—A letter from Constantinople of the 28th nit , in the Trieste Gazette, says:—" The banker Raltszsi, who had fallen into disgrace, has been summoned by Resebid rubs to give his advice on the project of raising &loan in the empire in the sane way as those of France and Austria." HAMBURG.—The Chamber of Hamburg, on the pro position of the Senate, has suptressed the duty of a balf per cent. od vakretn, hitherto charged on the sale of foreign merchandise; and, at the same time, has fired at one quarter per cent. the sum to be paid for brokerage. The Madrid Gazette contains a decree restoring Dona Josefa, daughter of Don Francisco de Paula, to the dignity of Infanta, which she forfeited by her marriage with M. Goethe y Renee, deputy of Valladolid. But her children, it is anaetad, shall not enjoy royal honours. ADDRESS TO SIR DE LACY EVANS —On Saturday evening a meeting et soldiers who had fought under Sir Da Lacy Evans, was held at the Ship T , Wardour-street, Soho, to adopt au address to the gallant officer in honour of his services to the country. Mr. Cuffe, a serjeant of the legion, was called to the chair, and propoeed an address congratulating Sir Ds Lacy upon the services he had rendered the count, y. The addren was seconded by Private John Cranney ; and, after some observations from Beduin Owen, carried amidst applause; • - WINDSOR ELECTION.—Mr. • Samson Ricardo, of Tituess-park, Bunniogbill, issued an address to the con stituunts of Windsor, on Saturday afternoon, and imme diately commenced his canvass. Mr. Ricardo is well known for his liberal principles, and, from the high respect in which he is held in the borough, the chances of his oppo aent's success are considered but slender. WEST LONDON DISPENSAIIT.—This much•needed charity will shortly commence its benevolent operations under the most flattering auspices. Earl Fitzwilliam, K.G., has become its President, presenting it with 501. His Lordship will preside at the first festival, to be holden on Saturday, May 5. The Doke of Leeds, the Marquis of Lansdowne, K 0., and abut 60 noblemen and gentlemen have become Vico•Presidents. AN ORDER issued by the Commissioners of Police, was promulgated on Saturday, and read to the summoning officers at the various police offices, to the Effect that they are not on any acemmt to recommend solicitors to the persons whom they may have in their custody, or any body A minor reform has been effected by the Home of Lords. The public papers of that body are is future to be sold to the general publio without the formality of a peer's order.—Athenown. MINISTERS AT FOREIGN COURTS' EXTRAORDINARY EXPINBEIL-00 Saturday &parliamentary paper was issued thowing that 8,0001. is requirma.t =sae good the deficiently of the fete of last motion for extraordinary expenses of _ I foreign ministers for the year ending the 31st March next. 1 s im:lll4—.lassal4a . : . .